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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TWO WORLDS, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS First Line: Two worlds there are. To one our eyes we strain Last Line: Evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise | |||
Nevermore. Two worlds there are. To one our eyes we strain, Whose magic joys we shall not see again; Bright haze of morning veils its glimmering shore. Ah, truly breathed we there Intoxicating air -- Glad were our hearts in that sweet realm of Nevermore. The lover there drank her delicious breath Whose love has yielded since to change or death; The mother kissed her child, whose days are o'er Alas! too soon have fled The irreclaimable dead: We see them -- vision strange -- amid the Nevermore. The merrysome maiden used to sing -- The brown, brown hair that once was wont to cling, To temples long clay-cold: to the very core They strike our weary hearts, As some vexed memory starts From that long, faded land -- the realm of Nevermore. It is perpetual summer there. But here Sadly may we remember rivers clear, And harebells quivering on the meadow-floor For brighter bells and bluer, For tenderer hearts and truer People that happy land -- the realm of Nevermore. Upon the frontier of this shadowy land We pilgrims of eternal sorrow stand: What realm lies forward, with its happier store Of forests green and deep, Of valleys hushed in sleep, And lakes most peaceful? 'T is the land of Evermore. Very far off its marble cities seem -- Very far off -- beyond our sensual dream -- Its woods, unruffled by the wild wind's roar; Yet does the turbulent surge Howl on its very verge. One moment -- and we breathe within the Evermore. They whom we loved and lost so long ago Dwell in those cities, far from mortal woe -- Haunt those fresh woodlands, whence sweet carollings soar. Eternal peace have they; God wipes their tears away: They drink that river of life which flows from Evermore. Thither we hasten through these regions dim, But, lo, the wide wings of the Seraphim Shine in the sunset! On that joyous shore Our lightened hearts shall know The life of long ago The sorrow-burdened past shall fade for Evermore. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE END OF LIFE by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 6 by CONRAD AIKEN THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#19): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND WINTER by MARVIN BELL THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR A SKELETON FOR MR. PAUL IN PARADISE; AFTER ALLAN GUISINGER by NORMAN DUBIE BEAUTY & RESTRAINT by DANIEL HALPERN HOW IT WILL HAPPEN, WHEN by DORIANNE LAUX IF THIS IS PARADISE by DORIANNE LAUX IF by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS |
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