Love

Song: Flame at the core of the world

by Arthur Upson 1877–1908

From The Home Book of Verse, ed. Burton Stevenson (1912)

Love

Flame at the core of the world,
And flame in the red rose-tree;
The one is the fire of the ancient spheres,
The other is Junes to be;
And, oh, there's a flame that is both their flames
Here at the heart of me!

As strong as the fires of stars,
As the prophet rose-tree true,
The fire of my life is tender and wild,
Its beauty is old and new;
For out of the infinite past it came
With the love in the eyes of you!

MLA

Upson, Arthur. “Song: Flame at the core of the world.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/upson/5/.

Chicago

Upson, Arthur. “Song: Flame at the core of the world.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/upson/5/.

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