Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TWO BIRTHDAYS, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poet's Biography First Line: Your birthday, sweetheart, is my birthday too Last Line: On -- on -- from star to star. Subject(s): Birthdays | ||||||||
YOUR birthday, sweetheart, is my birthday too, For, had you not been born, I who began to live beholding you Up early as the morn, That day in June beside the rose-hung stream, Had never lived at all -- We stood, do you remember? in a dream There by the water-fall. You were as still as all the other flowers Under the morning's spell; Sudden two lives were one, and all things "ours" -- How we can never tell. Surely it had been fated long ago -- What else, dear, could we think? It seemed that we had stood for ever so, There by the river's brink. And all the days that followed seemed as days Lived side by side before, Strangely familiar all your looks and ways, The very frock you wore; Nothing seemed strange, yet all divinely new; Known to your finger tips, Yet filled with wonder every part of you, Your hair, your eyes, your lips. The wise in love say love was ever thus Through endless Time and Space, Heart linked to heart, beloved, as with us, Only one face -- one face -- Our own to love, however fair the rest; 'Tis so true lovers are, For ever breast to breast, On -- on -- from star to star. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BIRTHDAY (AUTOBIOGRAPHY) by ROBINSON JEFFERS POEM FOR MY TWENTIETH BIRTHDAY by KENNETH KOCH A HAPPY BIRTHDAY by TED KOOSER FOR A SOLDIER'S BIRTHDAY by EVE MERRIAM PICTURE THIS:/ FOR THE 100TH BIRTHDAY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER by ANDREW MOTION POEM FOR MY BIRTHDAY by LISEL MUELLER A BALLAD OF LONDON (TO H.W. MASSINGHAM) by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE AFTER THE WAR by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE WHAT OF THE DARKNESS?; TO THE HAPPY DEAD PEOPLE by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE |
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