The Mind
Desire of Fame
From Soldiers of the Light (1911)
The Mind
O unapproachable glories of the night!
You type not my desire: enough for me
The vanished meteor’s immortality,
Brief memory of a moment touched with light.
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MLA
Cone, Helen Gray. “Desire of Fame.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cone/124/.
Chicago
Cone, Helen Gray. “Desire of Fame.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cone/124/.
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