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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MY ANGEL, by JONATHAN HENDERSON BROOKS Poet's Biography First Line: That night my angel stooped and strained Last Line: Despair and my disgrace. | |||
That night my angel stooped and strained To lift me from the mud. He could not lift my heaviness. My angel sweated blood. He said: You are the heaviest grief In heaven since the flood. All night my angel stooped and strained, Loath to abandon me: The heaviest load since Lucifer Shook heaven's regency. All night he interceded for My black necessity. He rose. And two wings hid his feet. And two wings veiled his face, And two wings took him, weary wings, To angels' resting place. He flew away. He left with me Despair and my disgrace. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AND ONE SHALL LIVE IN TWO by JONATHAN HENDERSON BROOKS MUSE IN LATE NOVEMBER by JONATHAN HENDERSON BROOKS SHE SAID ... by JONATHAN HENDERSON BROOKS VARIATIONS: 10 by CONRAD AIKEN WOODSMOKE AT 70 by HAYDEN CARRUTH ON A PORTRAIT OF WORDSWORTH BY B.R. HAYDON by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE BLESSED DAMOZEL by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI TO MRS. MARISSAL by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD O YE JOYS! by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 62. FAREWELL TO JULIET (14) by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |
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