<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348259" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Two Poems from the War</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, not the loss of the accomplished thing! <br>Not dumb farewells, nor long relinquishment <br>Of beauty had, and golden summer spent, <br>And savage glory of the fluttering <br>Torn banners of the rain, and frosty ring <br>Of moon-white winters, and the imminent <br>Long-lunging seas, and glowing students bent <br>To race on some smooth beach the gull's wing:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not these, nor all we've been, nor all we've loved, <br>The pitiful familiar names, had moved <br>Our hearts to weep for them; but oh, the star <br>The future is! Eternity's too wan <br>To give again that undefeated, far, <br>All-possible irradiance of dawn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like moon-dark, like brown water you escape, <br>O laughing mouth, O sweet uplifted lips. <br>Within the peering brain old ghosts take shape; <br>You flame and wither as the white foam slips <br>Back from the broken wave: sometimes a start, <br>A gesture of the hands, a way you own <br>Of bending that smooth head above your heart,-- <br>Then these are varied, then the dream is gone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, you are too much mine and flesh of me <br>To seal upon the brain, who in the blood <br>Are so intense a pulse, so swift a flood <br>Of beauty, such unceasing instancy. <br>Dear unimagined brow, unvisioned face, <br>All beauty has become your dwelling place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Archibald+MacLeish">Archibald MacLeish</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348259" data-title="Two Poems from the War de Archibald MacLeish" data-description="Oh, not the loss of the accomplished thing! Not dumb farewells, nor long relinquishment Of beauty had, and golden summer spent, And savage glory of the fluttering Torn banners of the rain, and frosty ring Of moon-white winters, and the immine..."></div> </div> </div>

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