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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WAY BETWEEN, by ADOLPH OLIVER GOLDSMITH First Line: From green to green is an endless way Last Line: To break the brown bitterness. | |||
From green to green is an endless way. The breathing green at the pine tree's top Is years away From the sleeping moss at its feet. The way between from green to green Is rough and hard and grating, With never a place for the eye to rest From the dull drab space between The green. Upward from mossy smooth childhood The way is irksome as pine tree bark, With never a break in the roughness, Never a twig to cling to. Slowly climbing toward the living green That is surely above, Nothing can be done Except perhaps to crawl Under the shaggy bark to oblivion, Hoping to irritate the life beneath And cause it to thrust out a branch Of green in protest To break the brown bitterness. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HERITAGE by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT LINES ON HEARING THE ORGAN by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY THE WILD RIDE by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY THE SOLDIER by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 110 by PHILIP SIDNEY TO THE DAISY (1) by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH RESIGNATION by AUGUSTE ANGELLIER TRISTRAM AND ISEULT by MATTHEW ARNOLD ON SEEING AN OFFICER'S WIDOW DISTRACTED - ARREARS OF PENSION by MARY BARBER |
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