With contrite heart and sacrifice of tears I give thee back unto the Lord the Lender, Star of my life, quintessence of the splendour, Of Lucifer and all his shining peers. The shadow of returning night uprears Its veil athwart thy face, serene and tender. O lift me to thy self through this surrender Where, hid from earth, thou shinest in the spheres. The fire of love its proper ashes smother When hearts are still and lips without a breath, The light of love lives on, nor suffers wrong. Though hell and heaven part us from each other The might of love immortal and of song Hath made us whom life had parted, one in death. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE PLACE OF PEACE by EDWIN MARKHAM ON DIGITAL EXTREMITIES by FRANK GELETT BURGESS ROUEN; 26 APRIL - 25 MAY 1915 by MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN AN ANCIENT PROPHECY by PHILIP FRENEAU THE BEAN-STALK by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY THE DYING SWAN by THOMAS STURGE MOORE A RONDEL OF LUVE [LOVE] by ALEXANDER SCOTT (1520-1590) |