Love is made out of ecstasy and wonder; Love is a poignant … - Joyce Kilmer

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Love is made out of ecstasy and wonder; Love is a poignant and accustomed pain. It is a burst of Heaven-shaking thunder; It is a linnet's fluting after rain.

Joyce Kilmer

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Alfred Joyce Kilmer (6 December 1886 – 30 July 1918) was an American journalist and poet.

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Alternative Names: Alfred Joyce Kilmer

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He comes, and his face is sad and mild, With thorns his head is crowned; There are great bleeding wounds in his feet, And in each hand a wound. How can I tell, who am a fool, If this be Christ or no? Those bleeding hands outstretched to me! Those eyes that love me so!

There is no strange and distant place That is not gladdened by His face. And every nation kneels to hail The Splendour shining through Its veil.

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