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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TODAY, by CLARA A. CLAUSEN First Line: Today I sat beside a brook and dreamed Last Line: It is not years that make the heart grow old. Alternate Author Name(s): Kenyon, Claire | |||
Today I sat beside a brook and dreamed -- A self-willed exile with a longing heart. While breezes touched the breathless woods it seemed A thousand song-birds lifted high their art. With cheerful, yet with pensive mood, each leaf Found tongue to speak in that deep-sheltered place; To wrap my soul in ecstasy, though grief Was there within my breast. Alone, I face The gates, that gave me you, fast barred. What way My path shall lie or what my fate may be I do not know, but time of night and day Will show, till darkness shall encompass me, Though I am brave, as hours of life unfold, It is not years that make the heart grow old. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 41 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING LACK OF STEADFASTNESS; BALLAD by GEOFFREY CHAUCER THE HELMSMAN by HILDA DOOLITTLE IN THE VALLEY OF CAUTERETZ by ALFRED TENNYSON STANZAS ON THE CONVERSION OF THE JEWS by BERNARD BARTON PORTBURY by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN LOVE POEMS: 11 by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) |
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