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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PRISON A FLAME, by MAURICE C. FIELDS First Line: You run in riddles who would have love chained Last Line: What slyly glides, dark disillusionment ......) | |||
You run in riddles who would have Love chained, feet bound -- wings clipped -- hot rebel heart subdued to mundane usage -- airy flight constrained, enslaved to whims of panders to the lewd. Still riddling paradox, you then desire this fettered thing to wheel on wings, and soar, bidding this lump to blaze with holy fire -- its vital spark negated at the core ... First you must, Canute-wise, command the free ocean to cease its billowing and swell; prison a flame and quench its ecstasy -- transfix the sun, assuage the pangs of hell -- (But snug within all captive fruit is pent what slyly glides, dark disillusionment ......) | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 1. E.P. ODE POUR L'ELECTION DE SON SEPULCHRE by EZRA POUND CRADLE SONG (TO A TUNE OF BLAKE'S): 2 by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE DAFFODILS by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH A SLUMBER SONG by A. HOLCOMBE AIKEN A THOUGHT ON DEATH by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD ONE THAT'S ON THE SEA by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD WOOING IN A DREAM by NICHOLAS BRETON |
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