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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TRANSFORMATION, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER First Line: Love, we have dipped life's humble bread Last Line: Shall find the key to paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson | |||
Love, we have dipped Life's humble bread Into the stars' flame-bubbling springs; We've knelt before the Moon's white face, While around us whirred Night's purple wings. Love, we have trod the floors of Morn, And watched Dawn's reeling galleons die; The sunset's panoramic hills -- Love, we have known them, you and I. Upon the battlements of Time We stood and heard Life's thunders roar: A million ticking years that swelled The crashing notes of millions more. Our hearts have germinated sweet To beauty through each golden hour; But now the bloom-time days are past, The stalk is fading with the flower. And we shall seek earth's simple things: A roof-tree small, a green-thatched fire -- Come, Love, and lay your cherished dreams Beneath the touch of my desire. We could not climb the Infinite, The jagged heights were steep and long; For us child-wistfulness and sleep -- Old twilight memories and song. Love, is it here that we shall wend, Down homelit paths, grown gently wise? Perhaps your eyes, made glad of earth, Shall find the Key to Paradise. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DAGONET MAKES A SONG FOR THE KING by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER EPICEDIUM; IN MEMORY OF AMERICA'S DEAD IN THE GREAT WAR by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER GOLD FISH by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER LATE AUTUMN by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER MIDNIGHT: EARLY SUMMER by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER PAGEANT by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER REMEMBERED LOVE by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER SACRIFICE by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER SNOW-SPELL by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER THE LAST HARPER by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER |
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