New Classic Poems – Contemporary Verse That Rhymes

New Classic Poems
Love
How Like Unto a Longing Heart
Vincent W. Williams
How like unto a longing heart was I
When touch of hand or silent word be spoke;
Betimes I wakened to my Sorrow’s sigh,
As plaintive murmur did its woe invoke.
T’was then my thoughts recalled some happy day,
Some former moments smothered in a smile;
No longer did my spirit dare to play,
Nor claim a childlike pleasure to beguile.
But then celestial symphony’s surprise,
Inspiriting a heavenly desire,
Became the only vision for my eyes:
Became my life, and did my heart inspire.
O, panoply of sense, I pledge to thee,
My passion now and for eternity.
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