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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
REPLY, by CONSTANCE WALTHER CROSSEN First Line: When in some distant timelessness Last Line: "and there was warmth in peoples' hands!" | |||
When in some distant timelessness We pace an endless, golden shore, Perhaps my ghostly friends and I Will call to mind our lives before. If one should say, "The Planet Earth -- That was a place where sorrow grew, And people paid a bitter price For all the happiness they knew!" I should reply, "It may have been That Earth required a heavy toll, But if I bore my share of pain, Its memory escapes my soul, And all that I can recollect Is how the dogwood trees, in spring, Stood white against the forest's rim, And set its darkness shimmering; How summer mornings drowsed with bees, And nights cried out with whippoorwills, How autumn wore a purple veil, And silver winter hushed the hills; And how my spirit stayed at home And never longed for other lands, For Earth felt firm beneath my feet, And there was warmth in peoples' hands!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A BANJO SONG by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON ON A PROPOSED TRIP SOUTH by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS LUCIFER IN STARLIGHT by GEORGE MEREDITH THREE SONNETS WRITTEN IN MID-CHANNEL: 3 by ALFRED AUSTIN A CURLEW'S CALL by JANE BARLOW APRIL BYEWAY by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE UNKNOWN QUANTITY by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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