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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...SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 5 by CONRAD AIKEN THE USES OF POETRY by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW WALT WHITMAN by HARRISON SMITH MORRIS THE QUESTION by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY SYMPHONY IN YELLOW by OSCAR WILDE THE SISTER'S TRAGEDY by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH FROM A YOUNG WOMAN TO AN OLD OFFICER WHO COURTED HER by ELIZABETH FRANCES AMHERST |
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