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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SURETY, by WITTER BYNNER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have each other's deathless love Last Line: How dear a thing is dust! Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Love; Loyalty; Mortality; Dead, The | |||
We have each other's deathless love, A love that flies on wings of light From star to star and sings above The night: We bid each other's eyes reveal The face whose images we are; We find each other's hand upon the wheel Piloting every star. Shall we then watch with a less lonely breath Gradual, sudden, everlasting death? Oh, lest a separating wind assail The jocund stars and all their ways be dearth, And love, undone of its immense avail, Go homeless even on earth, Let us be constant, though we travel far, With every mortal token of our trust, And not forget, piloting any star, How dear a thing is dust! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND A BUFFALO DANCE AT SANTO DOMINGO by WITTER BYNNER |
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