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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN HADES, by ANNA CALLENDER BRACKETT First Line: Then saw I, with gray eyes fulfilled of rest Last Line: "he knew the whole - and could not choose but turn!" | |||
THEN saw I, with gray eyes fulfilled of rest, And lulling voice, a woman sweet, and she,-- "Bear thou my word: I am of all most blest; Nor marvel that I am Eurydice. I stood and watched those slow feet go from me Farther and farther; in the light afar, All clear the figure grew -- then suddenly Into my dark his face flashed like a star!-- And that was all. The purple vaporous door Left me triumphant over time and space; Sliding across between forevermore, It could not hide the glory of that face. For me no room to doubt, no need to learn-- He knew the whole - and could not choose but turn!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CELSUS AT HADRIAN'S VILLA by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SONNET TO MRS. REYNOLD'S CAT by JOHN KEATS THE COMING STORM' (A PICTURE BY R. S. GIFFORD) by HERMAN MELVILLE MODERN LOVE: 47 by GEORGE MEREDITH SONNET by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI DE RERUM NATURA: BOOK 3. AGAINST THE FEAR OF DEATH by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS EIGHTEEN SIXTY-ONE by WALT WHITMAN |
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