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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FORGOTTEN COUNTERSIGN, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON Poet's Biography First Line: Life met me on the threshold - young, divine Last Line: And love be more than a delusive dream! Subject(s): Religion; Theology | |||
Life met me on the thresholdyoung, divine, And promised me unutterable things; And Love, with fragrant greeting on his wings, Looked in my eyes and laid his lips on mine, And bade me quaff the magic of his wine That deep delight, or disillusion brings. Ah! had I kept my fair imaginings, I had not lost the heavenly countersign; The Shibboleth of soul supremacy; The dower from my birth in higher spheres. Then might I know the purer ecstasy Of conquering Earth's test of alien tears And Life, perchance, her promise might redeem, And Love be more than a delusive dream! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY FROM A MOTOR IN MAY by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON |
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