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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EARTH-BOUND, by LUCILLE IREDALE CARLESON Poet's Biography First Line: You are star and fire-light Last Line: For I tell you earth will smother fire. | |||
You are star and fire-light, Why do you pause In your radiant wanderings To let this earth-bound one Dull your lustre? It would suffice Were you to leave a little smile As you passed by Some scented night. Go -- while there is yet time With a song on your lips, Lest your flame Be turned to ashes. Hold fast to your star-spun desire For I tell you earth will smother fire. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MARY'S LAMB by SARAH JOSEPHA BUELL HALE TO HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; ON HIS BIRTHDAY, 27 FEB. 1867 by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL RODGERSON'S DOUG by WILLIAM AITKEN KINDLY VISION by OTTO JULIUS BIERBAUM QUEEN MOUNTAIN by BLANCHE BROWNE BRYANT THE PASSING OF THE OLD VERMONT MEETINGHOUSE by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY THE MARTYR OF BRUSSELS by HENRY CHAPPELL SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD: 2. THE OCEAN STEAMER by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH |
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