Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, REUNION, by MARY WINTER WERE


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REUNION, by                    
First Line: When the red embers on the hearth glow bright
Last Line: And I am free of earth, and earth's despair.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


When the red embers on the hearth glow bright,
And the snow-muffled world in silence lies;
When wrapped in dreams so wrought with mysteries
The sleeping scarce draw breath, I take my flight
Out through the shadow, out, out into the night,
The deep, broad night encompassing the skies
With filaments of silver, where, full of eyes,
The heavens swing, a galaxy of light.

Gone is the close shut room; the lingering fire
Holds for me now no comfort, though the heat
Glows kindly on my body in its chair.
My spirit wings in fullness of desire
Up through the starry aisles my love to meet,
And I am free of earth, and earth's despair.





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