My Light with Yours by Edgar Lee Masters

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend March 21, 2015   My Light with Yours   Edgar Lee Masters

I   When the sea has devoured the ships, And the spires and the towers Have gone back to the hills. And all the cities Are one with the plains again. And the beauty of bronze, And the strength of steel Are blown over silent continents, As the desert sand is blown— My dust with yours forever.   II   When folly and wisdom are no more, And fire is no more, Because man is no more; When the dead world slowly spinning Drifts and falls through the void— My light with yours In the Light of Lights forever!            This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   “My Light with Yours” was published in Masters’s book Toward the Gulf (Macmillan, 1918).   Edgar Lee Masters was born in Garnett, Kansas, on August 23, 1868. His books include A Book of Verses (1898), Starved Rock (1919), and The Open Sea (1921). Masters died on March 5, 1950. Poetry by Masters   The Great Valley (Hardpress Publishing, 2013) "When You Are Old" by W. B. Yeats "I Love You" by Sara Teasdale "How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038