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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN HADES, by ANNA CALLENDER BRACKETT First Line: Then saw I, with gray eyes fulfilled of rest Last Line: "he knew the whole - and could not choose but turn!" | |||
THEN saw I, with gray eyes fulfilled of rest, And lulling voice, a woman sweet, and she,-- "Bear thou my word: I am of all most blest; Nor marvel that I am Eurydice. I stood and watched those slow feet go from me Farther and farther; in the light afar, All clear the figure grew -- then suddenly Into my dark his face flashed like a star!-- And that was all. The purple vaporous door Left me triumphant over time and space; Sliding across between forevermore, It could not hide the glory of that face. For me no room to doubt, no need to learn-- He knew the whole - and could not choose but turn!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO THE MARTYRED by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON CANZONET: TO HIS COY LOVE by MICHAEL DRAYTON EPITAPH ON THE MONUMENT OF SIR WILLIAM DYER by KATHERINE DYER SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 36. STRONG, LIKE THE SEA by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) UPON MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND HIS GOING INTO ENGLAND, 1661 by ANNE BRADSTREET SONNET ON MOOR PARK - WRITTEN AT LEE PRIORY, AUGUST 10, 1826 by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES VERNAL MAGIC by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE WIND OF MAY by EDWARD CARPENTER |
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