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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WALLS, by MARJORIE MEEKER First Line: Ask me why I peer Last Line: Can split a rock. | |||
Ask me why I peer Through such a narrow cranny -- I say that sky from here Is better than not any. The walls that shut me in No mind can make immortal; My harder will shall win The yet unthought-of portal. Ask why I take root Where nothing green is growing -- I say that seed and shoot Follow the mad wind's sowing; But where these live roots turn And thrust, no wall shall block: Tendril of frailest fern Can split a rock. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...COLOR OF WATER by MARJORIE MEEKER LAST SONG TO A POET by MARJORIE MEEKER LATE AUTUMN, EARLY WINTER by MARJORIE MEEKER SENTIMENTAL HISTORY by MARJORIE MEEKER SONG FOR A MAY NIGHT by MARJORIE MEEKER THE DEFEATED YEARS by MARJORIE MEEKER THE UNWARY HEART by MARJORIE MEEKER WITCH'S SONG by MARJORIE MEEKER THE POPLAR by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM SCHOOL AND SCHOOLFELLOWS; FLOREAT ETONA by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED |
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