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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DISENCHANTMENT, by CHARLES LEONARD MOORE Poet's Biography First Line: The mighty soul that is ambition's mate Last Line: Fear now no thing but immortality. | |||
THE mighty soul that is ambition's mate, Tied to the shiftings of a certain star, Forgets the circle of its mortal state And what its planetary aspects are, Till, in conjunctive course and wandering, Out of its trance and treasure-dream of hope It wakens, poor illusionary thing, Wingless, without desire, or deed, or scope. So have I with imaginations played Till I have lost life's sure and single good, Forgotten friendships, broken vows, and made My heart a highway for ingratitude, And, driven to the desert of the sky, Fear now no thing but immortality. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SOUL UNTO SOUL GLOOMS DARKLING by CHARLES LEONARD MOORE THEN SHALL WE SEE by CHARLES LEONARD MOORE THOU LIVEST, O SOUL! by CHARLES LEONARD MOORE TO ENGLAND by CHARLES LEONARD MOORE NURSING HOME: THE CANARY by KAREN SWENSON OUTWARD BOUND by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE LOST LEADER by ROBERT BROWNING SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 18 by THOMAS CAMPION TRANSFORMATIONS by THOMAS HARDY |
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