The Snapped Thread

Robert Graves 1895 (Wimbledon) – 1985 (Deià)



Desire, first, by a natural miracle
United bodies, united hearts, blazed beauty;
Transcended bodies, transcended hearts.

Two souls, now unalterably one
In whole love always and for ever,
Soar out of twilight, through upper air,
Let fall their sensous burden.

Is it kind, though, is it honest even,
To consort with none but spirits-
Leaving true-wedded hearts like ours
In enforced night-long separation,
Each to its random bodily inclination,
The thread of miracle snapped?

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 06, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXX AXXA XXXAAX
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 469
Words 76
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 4, 6

Robert Graves

Robert von Ranke Graves was an English poet, scholar/translator/writer of antiquity specializing in Classical Greece and Rome, novelist and soldier in World War One. more…

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