O HEART of hearts, the chalice of love's fire, Hid round with flowers and all the bounty of bloom. O wonderful and perfect heart for whom The lyrist liberty made life a lyre; O heavenly heart at whose most dear desire Dead love, living and singing, cleft his tomb, And with him risen and regent in death's room All day thy choral palses rang full choir; O heart whose beating blood was running song, O sole thing sweeter than thine own songs were, Help us for thy free love's sake to be free. True for thy truth's sake, for thy strength's sake strong, Till very liberty make clean and fair The nursing earth as the sepulchral sea. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LINES TO CASTE by SAMUEL ALFRED BEADLE THE FALCON by GRACE UPDEGRAFF BERGEN SCARABAEUS SISYPHUS by MATHILDE BLIND FOOTNOTE TO TENNYSON by GERALD WILLIAM BULLETT ABNEGATION by KATHARINE BROWN BURT DEATH (IN MEMORIAM MAGGIE MEAGHER) by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON |