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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HAUNTED STREETS, by MATHILDE BLIND Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, haply walking in some clattering street Last Line: We stretch out yearning hands and grasp -- the air. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Memory; Seeking | |||
LO, haply walking in some clattering street -- Where throngs of men and women dumbly pass, Like shifting pictures seen within a glass Which leave no trace behind -- one seems to meet, In roads once trodden by our mutual feet, A face projected from that shadowy mass Of faces, quite familiar as it was, Which beaming on us stands out clear and sweet. The face of faces we again behold That lit our life when life was very fair, And leaps our heart toward eyes and mouth and hair: Oblivious of the undying love grown cold, Or body sheeted in the churchyard mould, We stretch out yearning hands and grasp -- the air. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FINDER FOUND by EDWIN MUIR LOOKING FOR BILLY by SIMON J. ORTIZ ESCAPIST - NEVER by ROBERT FROST AS I STEP OVER A PUDDLE AT THE END OF WINTER, I THINK OF AN ANCIENY CHINESE GOVERNOR by JAMES WRIGHT LORD I AM HERE. - BUT, CHILD, I LOOK FOR THEE by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI AFTER ALL by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI |
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