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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poet's Biography First Line: Innocent spirits, bright, immaculate ghosts! Last Line: As your fate is to die, our fate is to be born. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. | |||
INNOCENT spirits, bright, immaculate ghosts! Why throng your heavenly hosts, As eager for their birth In this sad home of death, this sorrow-haunted earth? Beware! Beware! Content you where you are, And shun this evil star, Where we who are doomed to die Have our brief being, and pass, we know not where or why. We have not to consent or to refuse; It is not ours to choose: We come because we must, We know not by what law, if unjust or if just. The doom is on us, as it is on you, That nothing can undo; And all in vain you warn: As your fate is to die, our fate is to be born. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN EARLIEST SPRING by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS THE TWO WIVES by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS WHAT SHALL IT PROFIT? by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS A DOUBLE-BARRELLED SONNET TO MARK TWAIN: 1. FIRST BARREL by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS A DOUBLE-BARRELLED SONNET TO MARK TWAIN: 2. SECOND BARREL by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS A SEASONABLE MORAL by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS AFTER THE WEDDING by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS ALDRICH, 1866-1907 by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS ANOTHER DAY by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS BLACK CROSS FARM by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS BREAKFAST IS MY BEST MEAL: OVERHEARD AT CARLSBAD by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS |
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