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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE OLD PATHWAY, by NELLE J. COLBERT First Line: Little path with Last Line: Reveries, redeemed. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The | |||
Little path with crooked angles Running like a silver thread Out beyond the picket gateway Out beyond the holly's red. Friends and loved ones wandered o'er thee Weaving on the loom of life Memories golden -- dreams so olden, Reveries of pure delight. One by one they left the gateway Down the angles' rugged path, One by one they left me lonely Lost in memory's sailing craft. When I, too, go down the pathway, Fringed with joys and sorrows too, May sweet memories sleep eternal 'Neath the shining, morning dew. May the sunbeams hover o'er thee, Let the stars like lanterns gleam On an olden, -- golden pathway, Reveries, redeemed. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND CHRISTMAS TREES; A CHRISTMAS CIRCULAR LETTER by ROBERT FROST |
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