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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
I HAVE ENJOYED, by HENRY GEORGE WEISS First Line: I have enjoyed you, world Last Line: And give it again, new-cycled, to the stars! Alternate Author Name(s): Flagg, Francis | |||
I have enjoyed you, world, your mountains and your streams, your chasmed depths and vast and lonely seas; with feasting eyes, I have beheld your gorgeous dawns spring scarlet-clad upon the eastern hills to hurl a flaming comet at the night; beheld your blazing sunset's molten steel upon the wine-drenched rocks; your subtle gleams of color come and go upon the face of earth; I have in sensuous joy of beauty plucked the fragrant blossoms from your breathing breast and scattered petals lovely to the winds. And I have loved, as part of you, this glamorous woman fair, this amorous flesh that nourished by your virgin strength cleaved close to me in vibrant song of unity which swept the suns and made of eyes and lips and hair a paradise.... O world! O world! What do I owe? This flesh and blood? Then take it back, incorporate it with your elements, and give it again, new-cycled, to the stars! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE POET, THE STARS, AND THE BANK by HENRY GEORGE WEISS WHEN THE DESERT BLOOMS by HENRY GEORGE WEISS CONTRA MORTEM: THE BEING by HAYDEN CARRUTH A SEA-SHORE GRAVE by SIDNEY LANIER A GRAMMARIAN'S FUNERAL by ROBERT BROWNING TWO VOYAGERS by EMILY DICKINSON LAY OF THE TRILOBITE by MAY EMMA GOLDWORTH KENDALL TO THE STATES. TO IDENTIFY THE 16TH, 17TH, OR 18TH PRESIDENTIAD by WALT WHITMAN FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SLEEPER'S COUNTENANCE by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES THE SEA DREAM by WILLIAM ROSE BENET THE NEW WORLD; TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES by LAURENCE BINYON THE SHEPHERD'S SONG: A CAROL OR HYMN FOR CHRISTMAS by EDMUND BOLTON |
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