Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, POEM, by ALICE MOSER


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First Line: The memory of a flamelike shadow
Last Line: Recalling a forgotten vow.
Subject(s): Life; Time


The memory of a flamelike shadow
Smoulders through the feeble wall
Today had built to shut it out.
See the crisping papers fall!

Music, chastened, holds its mouth;
That traitor I had languished o'er.
Its frozen grace is silenced now
By red lips I have kissed before;

Remembrance is more tangible
Than hours fitted in the scheme
That formulates my present day,
And music's frailer than a dream.

I have held life close to me.
Breast to breast, I felt her breath
Warm beneath my fervid mouth.
Miraculously living Death,

Warden of these tedious days,
You cannot hope to win me now;
A shadow comes to me and speaks,
Recalling a forgotten vow.





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