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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PRE-EXISTENCE, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I laid me down upon the shore Last Line: The little pebbles lay. | |||
I laid me down upon the shore And dreamed a little space; I heard the great waves break and roar; The sun was on my face. My idle hands and fingers brown Played with the pebbles grey; The waves came up, the waves went down, Most thundering and gay. The pebbles, they were smooth and round And warm upon my hands, Like little people I had found Sitting among the sands. The grains of sand so shining-small Soft through my fingers ran; The sun shone down upon it all, And so my dream began: How all of this had been before; How ages far away I lay on some forgotten shore As here I lie to-day. The waves came shining up the sands, As here to-day they shine; And in my pre-pelasgian hands The sand was warm and fine. I have forgotten whence I came, Or what my home might be, Or by what strange and savage name I called that thundering sea. I only know the sun shone down As still it shines to-day, And in my fingers long and brown The little pebbles lay. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO A FAT LADY SEEN FROM THE TRAIN by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD E.W.D. by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD FEAR OF LIFE by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD THE CERTAIN KNOT OF PEACE by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD THE OLD WITCH IN THE COPSE by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD YOUTH by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD TO HIS WIFE ON THE 16TH ANNIVERSARY OF HER WEDDING DAY, WITH A RING by SAMUEL BISHOP HAMATREYA by RALPH WALDO EMERSON ARCADIA: THE BARGAIN by PHILIP SIDNEY HE REMEMBERS FORGOTTEN BEAUTY by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS HON. MR. SUCKLETHUMBKIN'S STORY: THE EXECUTION; A SPORTING ANECDOTE by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM |
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