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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. LITTLE HEART, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poet's Biography First Line: Little heart within the cage so many years - year after year Last Line: I and my joy will surely pass on. Subject(s): Love | |||
Little heart within thy cage so many years—year after year— Beating, still beating, so tenderly yearning For Comrade love, the love which is to come: Often near stopping, or wounded like a bird, so full of pain—thy thread of life almost snapt— Yet with joy so wonderful over all and through all continuing: Soon altogether shalt thou stop, little heart, and the beating and the pain here shall cease; But out of thee that life breathed into the lips of others shall never stop nor cease. Through a thousand beautiful forms—so beautiful!—through the gates of a thousand hearts—emancipated freed we will pass on: I and my joy will surely pass on. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD AS A MOULD FOR SOME FAIR FORM by EDWARD CARPENTER |
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