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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MY OWEN, by ELLEN MARY PATRICK DOWNING First Line: Proud of you, fond of you, clinging so near to you Last Line: More than the wisest know your heart shall preach to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Of The Nation | |||
PROUD of you, fond of you, clinging so near to you, Light is my heart now I know I am dear to you! Glad is my voice now, so free it may sing for you All the wild love which is burning within for you! Tell me once more, tell it over and over, The tale of that eve which first saw you my lover. Now I need never blush At my heart's hottest gush -- The wife of my Owen her heart may discover! Proud of you, fond of you, having all right in you, Quitting all else through my love and delight in you! Glad is my heart since 'tis beating so nigh to you! Light is my step for it always may fly to you! Clasped in your arms where no sorrow can reach to me, Reading your eyes till new love they shall teach to me. Though wild and weak till now, By that blest marriage vow, More than the wisest know your heart shall preach to me. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FRAGMENTARY BLUE by ROBERT FROST OH YOU ARE COMING by SARA TEASDALE THE LAMB, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE THE MAN CHRIST by THERESE (KARPER) LINDSEY A NYMPH TO A YOUNG SHEPHERD, INSENSIBLE OF LOVE by PHILIP AYRES THE BALLAD OF BITTER FRUIT by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE |
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