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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ALL THIS, by REBA MAXWELL AVERY First Line: There was a feather of a wind Last Line: Has kept my faith safely in place. | |||
There was a feather of a wind For youth and me who never sinned. There was a dream in high-cocked hat ... A star-tail swinging to my mat. There was a world within my eye, And love, in lace and plume, to die. All this for youth and me, but now Thorns of experience scar my brow. The wind ... a gale of icy thrust -- The dream ... long crumbled into dust The star-tail ... ragged, sharp-edged, curled, And my eye blinded by the world. But O, love, wearing plume and lace Has kept my faith safely in place. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HATCHING; FOR DAW AUNG SAN SUU KYI by KAREN SWENSON JOHN WINTER by LAURENCE BINYON CARRION COMFORT by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS THE MAGNOLIA TREE by EASTER ROHRER BECKER THE POET TO HIS GARRET by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER PERFECT UNION by MATHILDE BLIND THE TRUCE by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE |
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