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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INTERCESSION, by CORDELIA A. COX First Line: Because the chalice of your mouth your Last Line: Of life and love. Subject(s): Love | |||
Because the chalice of your mouth, your vibrant voice, The slumbrous beauty of your eyes Are damning me, unknowingly, to hell I've asked that I might be for just an hour, omnipotence. I've asked that I might take from you The gifts you deem essential And somehow make my love libation for your sacrifice. I'll bury every vestige of all sensual, carnal things In the pristine sepulcher of your forgetfulness. My gift to you, no fair exchange, will be capacity for deep, true love And boundless faith and chastity. If this, my intercession, be fulfilled You'll never sense one slight delusion In this mad, unfettered symphony Of life and love. | 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 |
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