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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LIFT DESCENDING, by MARIE CARMICHAEL STOPES First Line: The lift descending took my love from me Last Line: And all time stopped, though space was still escaping. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation | |||
The lift descending took my love from me. My heart pretending there was naught to see, Looked up. O there! Between smooth metal bars Your eyes shone, sudden cloud-enveloped stars. Your firm lips melted and your face was set With look so piercing I remember yet The sweet stir of its entry to my heart, The long, slow torture as we drew apart, The tension intimate of tendons stretched To breaking point, as downwards I was fetched. Where my heart had been, now a wound was gaping And all time stopped, though space was still escaping. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EVENING OF THE MIND by DONALD JUSTICE CHRISTMAS AWAY FROM HOME by JANE KENYON THE PROBLEM by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN by DAVID LEHMAN THIS UNMENTIONABLE FEELING by DAVID LEHMAN INSTEAD OF TEARS (IN MEMORIAM OF H.M.S. COSSACK), SELECTION by MARIE CARMICHAEL STOPES |
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