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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHAT HAPPENS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: When thy hand touches mine, through all the mesh
Last Line: In heart and brain and spirit makes thee mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Eyes; Hands; Hearts; Soul
First Line: When thy hand touches mine, through all the mesh
Last Line: In heart and brain and spirit makes thee mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Eyes; Hands; Hearts; Soul
When thy hand touches mine, through all the mesh
Of intricate and interlaced veins
Shoot swift delights that border on keen pains:
Flesh thrills to thrilling flesh.
When in thine eager eyes I look to find
A comrade to my thought, thy ready brain
Delves down and makes its inmost meaning plain:
Mind answers unto mind.
When hands and eyes are hid by seas that roll
Wide wastes between us, still so near thou art
I count the very pulses of thy heart:
Soul speaketh unto soul.
So every law, or human or divine,
In heart and brain and spirit makes thee mine.
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