Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FOR BEAUTY'S LOVER, by ZUELLA STERLING


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FOR BEAUTY'S LOVER, by                    
First Line: Should you be beauty's lover, vainly shut
Last Line: Your step will make upon the frozen ground.
Subject(s): Beauty


Should you be Beauty's lover, vainly shut
In dingy canyons with the hurrying crowd --
Who sees the steel-hard eyes that pierce and cut
Through pinioned spirit till the soul is bowed,
Come home, and trace new patterns in the glen,
Of patchwork leaves strewn round the Princess Pines,
And sepia seed pods clustered down the fen
In company with tangled clematis vines.

Where orange toadstools cling to old, gray wood,
And only footfalls of the brown deer pass,
Walk quietly, for Beauty here has stood
And turned the pools to panes of frosted glass
So thin they almost shatter at the sound
Your step will make upon the frozen ground.





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