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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN JUNIOR YEAR, by WILLIAM GRANT BARNEY First Line: In junior year, ah, fancies light Last Line: In junior year. | |||
IN Junior year, ah, fancies light, The soul unfettered, spirits bright! Dwells aught of doubt or fear or night In Junior year? The storms of boyhood's age are past, Youth's doubts and fears away are cast, And budding manhood blooms at last, In Junior year. Desiring but ourselves to please, On every impulse light we seize? We smoke and take the world with ease, In Junior year. But mid the smoke wreaths as they rise, With light as soft as evening skies, There often smiles a pair of eyes, In Junior year. And as at dawn the brightness breaks With quickening glow o'er summer lakes, So love within the heart awakes, In Junior year. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA by SAMUEL HAWKINS MARSHALL BYERS THE LOW-BACKED CAR by SAMUEL LOVER NEW HEAVEN, NEW WAR by ROBERT SOUTHWELL I SIT AND LOOK OUT by WALT WHITMAN PHAENOMENA: WHEN JUSTICE DWELT ON EARTH by ARATUS SOLILOQUIES OF A SMALL-TOWN TAXI-DRIVER: ON THE WRITING OF POETRY by EDGAR BARRATT |
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