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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHAT I DESIRE TO DAY, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poet's Biography First Line: What I desire to say will not be caught in words Last Line: What I desire to say dies ere I give it breath. Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns | |||
WHAT I desire to say will not be caught in words. -- I have been on the hills to-day, hearing strange leaves and birds. I have been on the city street, hearing the pavements groan. Now I am come again, glad of your face alone. Here in the quiet house, where the soft night walks through Window and open door, whispering to me and you, -- Here, where no stranger sounds than the far bellchimes come, -- Here, being most at peace, yet am I far from home. -- Even as if the stars started and strained in space, -- Even as if the winds shook Heaven's audience-place, Pressing the sapphire walls, out, till they cracked and rent, -- So in my side my heart strains through our still content. -- You, that of all the world know the wild ways I go, -- (You, flying farther yet, sweeping more high, more low,) Even to you, to-night, I must be dumb as death. What I desire to say dies ere I give it breath. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AN OLD SONG by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD ANCIENT BEAUTIFUL THINGS by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD CRACK O' DAWN by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD DAWN-JOY by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD ESCAPE by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD EVENING SONG by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD FIRE FANTASY by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD GHOSTS by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD HOME by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD HOOFS IN THE DARK by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD |
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