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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TODAY, by CLARA A. CLAUSEN First Line: Today I sat beside a brook and dreamed Last Line: It is not years that make the heart grow old. Alternate Author Name(s): Kenyon, Claire | |||
Today I sat beside a brook and dreamed -- A self-willed exile with a longing heart. While breezes touched the breathless woods it seemed A thousand song-birds lifted high their art. With cheerful, yet with pensive mood, each leaf Found tongue to speak in that deep-sheltered place; To wrap my soul in ecstasy, though grief Was there within my breast. Alone, I face The gates, that gave me you, fast barred. What way My path shall lie or what my fate may be I do not know, but time of night and day Will show, till darkness shall encompass me, Though I am brave, as hours of life unfold, It is not years that make the heart grow old. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...UP AT A VILLA - DOWN IN THE CITY by ROBERT BROWNING SONNET ON SITTING DOWN TO READ KING LEAR ONCE AGAIN by JOHN KEATS THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE NORTH SEA by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON HEART OF MY HEART by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN |
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