Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: 29, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poet's Biography First Line: In the fair picture of my life's estate Last Line: To wreck, and then rebuild it, stone by stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Labor & Laborers; Loss; Memory; Solitude; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Work; Workers; Loneliness | ||||||||
In the fair picture of my life's estate Which long ago my yearning fancy drew From hints of poets, prophets, lords of fate, What place is there, belovèd one, for you? How in this edifice of the soaring dome, Noble, harmonious, lifted towards the stars, Shall I carve forth a niche to be the home Of you and of my love that round you wars? Ah, folly his, who builds him such a house Too early, by impatient visions led, Ere he can know what blood shall stain his brows, And from what troubled streams his heart is fed. Now must he labor, in late night, alone To wreck, and then rebuild it, stone by stone. | 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 LOREINE: A HORSE by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE |
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