Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SONNETS OF ISHTAR: 2, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE


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THE SONNETS OF ISHTAR: 2, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My face lives always in the quenchless light
Last Line: I watch the last-born laughing in mine eyes!
Subject(s): Death; Faces; Sin; Youth; Dead, The


My face lives always in the quenchless light,
Frail gold of twilight burns across my breast,
The red dusk girds me and my limbs are pressed
In warm, wan shadows deepening down to night.
My hair, red gold on brows of faultless white,
Inspires earth's children to my fatal quest;
Youth's passionate face in mortal hope of rest
Grows blind against me, wearying of my might.
With ravenous lips men scourge my lustrous flesh
And crowd the quivering dusk with nameless sin;
Death takes them, still insatiate, from my mesh.
Viewless, my feet pash down the one who dies,
While, sprung aloft from earth he festers in,
I watch the last-born laughing in mine eyes!





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