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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON SOLITUDE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON First Line: Sweet solitude! I love thy silent shade Last Line: And hope to find that calm the world denied. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness | |||
Sweet Solitude! I love thy silent shade, I love to pause when in life's mad career; To view the chequered path before me laid, And turn to meditate -- to hope, to fear. 'T is sweet to draw the curtain on the world, To shut out all its tumult, all its care; Leave the dread vortex, in which all are whirled, And to thy shades of twilight calm repair. Yet, Solitude, the hand divine, which made The earth, the ocean, and the realms of air, Pointed how far thy kingdom should extend, And bade thee pause, for he had fixed thee there. Then, when disgusted with the world and man, When sick of pageantry, of pomp, and pride, To thee I'll fly, in thee I'll seek relief, And hope to find that calm the world denied. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN ABEYANCE by DENISE LEVERTOV IN A VACANT HOUSE by PHILIP LEVINE SUNDAY ALONE IN A FIFTH FLOOR APARTMENT, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS by WILLIAM MATTHEWS SILENCE LIKE COOL SAND by PAT MORA THE HONEY BEAR by EILEEN MYLES A DREAM by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON |
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