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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE MEETING WATERS, by ELIZABETH H. WHITTIER Poet's Biography First Line: Close beside the meeting waters Last Line: Flashing from a stronger tide! | |||
CLOSE beside the meeting waters, Long I stood as in a dream, Watching how the little river Fell into the broader stream. Calm and still the mingled current Glided to the waiting sea; On its breast serenely pictured Floating cloud and skirting tree. And I thought, "O human spirit! Strong and deep and pure and blest, Let the stream of my existence Blend with thine, and find its rest!" I could die as dies the river, In that current deep and wide; I would live as live its waters, Flashing from a stronger tide! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DR. KANE IN CUBA by ELIZABETH H. WHITTIER JOHN QUINCY ADAMS by ELIZABETH H. WHITTIER LADY FRANKLIN by ELIZABETH H. WHITTIER LINES WRITTEN AFTER THE DEPARTURE OF JOSEPH STURGE by ELIZABETH H. WHITTIER NIGHT AND DEATH by ELIZABETH H. WHITTIER THE DREAM OF ARGYLE by ELIZABETH H. WHITTIER THE WEDDING VEIL by ELIZABETH H. WHITTIER HYMN OF THE CITY by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT A THANKSGIVING TO GOD [FOR HIS HOUSE] by ROBERT HERRICK |
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