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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...SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: LAMBERT HUTCHINS by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SCHOOLS OF LITTLE FISH by MARVIN BELL PHILIP, MY KING by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK UPON THE DEATH OF THE LORD HASTINGS by JOHN DRYDEN THE HIGHWAYMAN by ALFRED NOYES THE BURNING OF THE TEMPLE by ISAAC ROSENBERG |
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