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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ALL THIS, by REBA MAXWELL AVERY First Line: There was a feather of a wind Last Line: Has kept my faith safely in place. | |||
There was a feather of a wind For youth and me who never sinned. There was a dream in high-cocked hat ... A star-tail swinging to my mat. There was a world within my eye, And love, in lace and plume, to die. All this for youth and me, but now Thorns of experience scar my brow. The wind ... a gale of icy thrust -- The dream ... long crumbled into dust The star-tail ... ragged, sharp-edged, curled, And my eye blinded by the world. But O, love, wearing plume and lace Has kept my faith safely in place. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO A FRIEND I CAN'T FIND by JAMES GALVIN THE LEAVES FIRST by CARL PHILLIPS EMPEDOCLES ON ETNA; A DRAMATIC POEM by MATTHEW ARNOLD A LITTLE BOY LOST, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE CALIBAN UPON SETEBOS; OR, NATURAL THEOLOGY IN THE ISLAND by ROBERT BROWNING STANZAS FOR MUSIC (1) by GEORGE GORDON BYRON OLNEY HYMNS: 35. LIGHT SHINING OUT OF DARKNESS by WILLIAM COWPER GOLD-OF-OPHIR ROSES by GRACE ATHERTON DENNEN HUMPTY DUMPTY RECITATION [OR, SONG] by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON |
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