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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RARE DESTINY, by FLORA LOUISE BAILEY First Line: While there is life within me I will praise Last Line: My body with such radiant happiness? | |||
While there is life within me I will praise The gods who, giving life, have made it sweet. Paeans of adoration will I raise, And pour libations at their sacred feet. Music surpassing either lute or lyre, Incense more fragrant than they ever knew Shall be my gifts, in this my one desire To offer sacrifice because of you. What claim had I on Heaven that she make An earthly replica of love's own form; Or give me her celestial wine to slake A thirst induced by lips mobile and warm? By what rare destiny came these to bless My body with such radiant happiness? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...APPLES OF HESPERIDES by AMY LOWELL SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: AMI GREEN by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE MOUSE'S PETITION TO DOCTOR PRIESTLY FOUND IN THE TRAP .. by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD THE SUN GOD by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE THE SONG OF HIAWATHA: PICTURE-WRITING by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW A MODEST WIT by SELLECK OSBORNE REUBEN JAMES by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE MY MADONNA by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE |
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