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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: 13, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poet's Biography First Line: I am in love with high far-seeing places Last Line: The marvel of your rapture-lighted face! Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Variant Title(s): View From Heights Subject(s): Desire; Love | |||
I am in love with high far-seeing places That look on plains half-sunlight and half-storm, -- In love with hours when from the circling faces Veils pass, and laughing fellowship glows warm. You who look on me with grave eyes where rapture And April love of living burn confessed, -- The Gods are good! The world lies free to capture! Life has no walls. O take me to your breast! Take me, -- be with me for a moment's span! -- I am in love with all unveiled faces. I seek the wonder at the heart of man; I would go up to the far-seeing places. While youth is ours, turn toward me for a space The marvel of your rapture-lighted face! | 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 LOREINE: A HORSE by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE |
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