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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ALL THIS, by REBA MAXWELL AVERY First Line: There was a feather of a wind Last Line: Has kept my faith safely in place. | |||
There was a feather of a wind For youth and me who never sinned. There was a dream in high-cocked hat ... A star-tail swinging to my mat. There was a world within my eye, And love, in lace and plume, to die. All this for youth and me, but now Thorns of experience scar my brow. The wind ... a gale of icy thrust -- The dream ... long crumbled into dust The star-tail ... ragged, sharp-edged, curled, And my eye blinded by the world. But O, love, wearing plume and lace Has kept my faith safely in place. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FRAGMENT 113 by HILDA DOOLITTLE HASTE NOT! REST NOT! by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE FIFTY YEARS (1863-1913) by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON TO RUSSIA by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER FROM A YOUNG WOMAN TO AN OLD OFFICER WHO COURTED HER by ELIZABETH FRANCES AMHERST IN VINCULIS; SONNETS WRITTEN IN AN IRISH PRISON: HONOUR DISHONOURED by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT A SISTER OF SORROW: 1. UP THE ROAD by GORDON BOTTOMLEY |
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