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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LIFE, by JEAN PIERRE CLARIS DE FLORIAN First Line: Blindly to grope, and start e'er break of day Last Line: And since god wills it so, so let it be. | |||
BLINDLY to grope, and start e'er break of day, Without or power or wish to ask the way. To drag from fall to fall our tottering feet; By noon our journey's third part scarce complete. Then o'er our heads to see dark clouds arise, Quicksands and treacherous marsh our steps surprise To run 'mid storms on storms before, behind, Toward some uncertain goal we ne'er shall find; At eve enlightened, for some port to flee, Gasping to reach, and there in slumber lie. This to be born we call, to live, to die; And since God wills it so, so let it be. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE PARROT by JEAN PIERRE CLARIS DE FLORIAN THE GOLDEN CORPSE by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET ANCHORED TO THE INFINITE by EDWIN MARKHAM ON READING -- . by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE FOREFATHER by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON TO MY INCONSTANT MISTRESS by THOMAS CAREW THE MOTHER IN THE HOUSE by HERMANN HAGEDORN THE TEARES OF THE MUSES by EDMUND SPENSER |
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