Modern Beauty
Arthur Symons
1865 to 1945
Drag the words to the correct places to complete the poem. To reset the game, click on the "Reset Game" button located below the poem. This will clear all the words you've placed in the blanks, returning them to the word bank and resetting the poem to its original state with empty blanks.
I am the torch, she saith, and what to ______
If the moth die of me? I am the ______
Of Beauty, and I burn that all may see
Beauty, and I have neither joy nor shame,
But live ______ that clear light of perfect fire
Which is to ______ the death of their desire.
I am Yseult and Helen, I have seen
Troy burn, and the most loving ______ lie dead.
The world has been my mirror, time ______ been
My breath upon the glass; and men have said,
Age after age, in rapture and despair,
Love's poor ______ words, before my image there.
I live, and am immortal; in my eyes
The sorrow of the world, and ______ my lips
The joy of life, mingle to make ______ wise;
Yet now the day is darkened with eclipse:
______ is there still lives for beauty? Still am I
______ torch, but where's the moth that still dares die?