Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ON HIS GOLDEN-WEDDING DAY, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD


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ON HIS GOLDEN-WEDDING DAY, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love burned once in your cheeks where now, as ashes
Last Line: When soul meets soul upon love's eminence.
Subject(s): Anniversaries; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


LOVE burned once in your cheeks where now, as ashes,
A pallor, no less lovely, greets mine eyes.
Once, where the twilight plays behind your lashes,
Stood windows open to the morning skies.

I do not find your beauty has diminished:
Rather does it increase with every year.
True loveliness shall grow till life be finished;
And they alone shall fade who sin or fear.

I would not give that love with which I love you
For all the passion that my youth could show.
There is no single star that shines above you
But keeps some secret we alone may know.

All that is best in youth joins in migration
And leaps the bounds of passion and of sense:
Age holds the miracle of adoration
When soul meets soul upon love's eminence.





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