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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INCONTINENCE, by VERNON L. SMITH First Line: Straight lies the path before me Last Line: How I sigh for the little winding way where red, red roses blow! | |||
Straight lies the path before me, And O it is so plain! Should I forsake it but a step two hearts would suffer pain. Sweet, sweet are stolen waters! And yet -- and yet a grief Stabs deeply and a lasting scar is heart-worn by a thief! Never my step will falter -- But O you'll never know How I sigh for the little winding way where red, red roses blow! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BEFORE DAWN; SONNET by AMY LOWELL EARTH IS ENOUGH by EDWIN MARKHAM EPITAPH IN BALLADE FORM by FRANCOIS VILLON BUONAPARTE by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH RUNNING TO PARADISE by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS SHIRK OR WORK? by GRACE BORDELON AGATE LINES WRITTEN TO A TRANSLATOR OF GREEK POETRY by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON SHADOWS OF RECOLLECTION by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN THE EMANCIPATION OF HIS MISTRESS' PERFECTIONS by FRANCIS BEAUMONT |
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