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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ANGEL AT THE FORD, by WILLIAM JAMES DAWSON First Line: I sought to hold her, but within her Last Line: And flashing of indignant aureoles. | |||
I SOUGHT to hold her, but within her eyes I read a new strange meaning; faint they prayed, "Oh, let me pass and taste the great surprise; Behold me not reluctant nor afraid!" "Nay, I will strive with God for this!" I cried, "As man with man, like Jacob at the brook, Only be thou, dear heart, upon my side!" "Be still," she answered, "very still, and look!" And straightway I discerned with inward dread The multitudinous passing of white souls, Who paused, each one with sad averted head, And flashing of indignant aureoles. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BIRD'S SONG AT MORNING by WILLIAM JAMES DAWSON IDEAL MEMORY by WILLIAM JAMES DAWSON THE HOUSE OF PRIDE by WILLIAM JAMES DAWSON THE WHISPERING WOOD by WILLIAM JAMES DAWSON CHAMBER MUSIC: 15 by JAMES JOYCE SONGS FOR TWO SEASONS: 1. AFTER GRAVE ILLNESS by CAROL FROST OCTAVES: 8 by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON VICTOR GALBRAITH by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 48 by OMAR KHAYYAM EPIPSYCHIDION by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY UPON THE IMAGE OF DEATH by ROBERT SOUTHWELL SONNET PREFIXED TO 'NENNIO, OR A TREATISE OF NOBILITY' by EDMUND SPENSER |
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