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THE POET'S ESTATE by ANNIE C. BURTON

First Line: THE POET ROAMS AT WILL WHERE HEARTSEASE GROWS
Last Line: ON THEM HAS BEEN BESTOWED APOLLO'S KISS.
Subject(s): HOUSES; POETRY & POETS; SONNET (AS LITERARY FORM);
The poet roams at will where heartsease grows;
He dwells in haunts of beauty all his days;
The joy of love in all its moods he knows;
His heart responds to all of nature's ways.
He speaks for men the words they could not find;
He feels the grief of all who see death's face;
He only has the mother's joy divined,
Sorrow of lovers in a last embrace.
Dream-emperor in a world of dreams avowed;
A welcome guest wherever fairies be;
His heart goes sailing on a summer cloud,
And wears a mantle of white ecstasy.
If poets had no other meed but this,
On them has been bestowed Apollo's kiss.



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