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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ALONE, by MARY ELIZABETH HEWITT Poet's Biography First Line: There lies a deep and sealed well Last Line: Flow forth, rejoicing, unto thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Mary Elizabeth Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness | |||
THERE lies a deep and sealed well Within yon leafy forest hid; Whose pent and lonely waters swell, Its confines chill and drear amid. It hears the birds on every spray Thrill forth melodious notes of love; It feels the warm sun's seldom ray Glance on the stone its wave above. And quick the gladden'd waters rush Tumultuous upward to the brink; A seal is on their joyous gush, And back, repress'd, they coldly shrink. Thus in their cavern'd space, apart, Closed from the eye of day, they dwell -- So, prison'd deep within my heart, The tides of quick affection swell. Each kindly glance -- each kindly tone, To joy its swift pulsations sway; But none may lift the veiling stone, And give the franchised current way. Smite THOU the rock, whose eye alone The hidden spring within may see; And bid the flood, resistless One! Flow forth, rejoicing, unto thee. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN ABEYANCE by DENISE LEVERTOV IN A VACANT HOUSE by PHILIP LEVINE SUNDAY ALONE IN A FIFTH FLOOR APARTMENT, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS by WILLIAM MATTHEWS SILENCE LIKE COOL SAND by PAT MORA THE HONEY BEAR by EILEEN MYLES BLESS THEE by MARY ELIZABETH HEWITT |
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