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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...THE RETURN (2) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON APPLES OF HESPERIDES by AMY LOWELL THE COMING OF WAR: ACTAEON by EZRA POUND PROSIT NEUJAHR by GEORGE SANTAYANA A WINTER NIGHT by WILLIAM BARNES STANZAS TO THE PO by GEORGE GORDON BYRON THE WAITER AND THE ALLIGATOR by G. W. A. A LAY OF ST. DUNSTAN by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: MOURNER'S CONSOLED by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |
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