Love Poem Quotes Flashcards
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She walks in Beauty like the night
of cloudless climes and starry skies
And all that’s best of dark and bright
meet in her aspect and her eyes
Thus mellowed to that tender light
that heaven to gaudy day denies
One shade the more, one ray the less
had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress
or softly lightens o’er her face
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
how pure how dear their dwelling place
And on that cheek, and o’er that brow
so soft so calm yet eloquent
The smiles that win the tints that glow
but tell of days in goodness spent
A mind at peace with all below
A heart whose love is innocent
After the first phase
After passionate nights and intimate dates
Only then would he let me trace
The frozen river which ran through his face
Only then would he let me explore
the blown hinge of his lower jaw
and handle and hold
the damaged porcelain collar bone
And mind and attend
the fractured rudder of shoulder-blade
and finger and thumb
the parachute silk of his punctured lung
only then could i bind the struts
and climb the rungs of his broken ribs
and feel the hurt
of his grazed heart
skirting along
only then could I picture the scan
the foetus of metal beneath his chest
Where the bullet had come to rest
Then I widened the search
traced the scarring back to its source
to a sweating unexploded mine
buried deep within his mind
every nerve in his body had tightened and closed
and only then did I come close
Not a red rose
Or a satin heart
I give you an onion
It is a moon wrapped in brown paper
