Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DOORS, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poet's Biography First Line: Like a young child who to his mother's door Last Line: The quiet shutting, one by one, of doors. Subject(s): Doors | ||||||||
Like a young child who to his mother's door Runs eager for the welcoming embrace, And finds the door shut, and with troubled face Calls and through sobbing calls, and o'er and o'er Calling, storms at the panel -- so before A door that will not open, sick and numb, I listen for a word that will not come, And know, at last, I may not enter more. Silence! And through the silence and the dark By that closed door, the distant sob of tears Beats on my spirit, as on fairy shores The spectral sea; and through the sobbing -- hark! Down the fair-chambered corridor of years, The quiet shutting, one by one, of doors. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...REBECCA; WHO SLAMMED DOORS FOR FUN AND PERISHED MISERABLY by HILAIRE BELLOC THE WRONG WAY HOME by JAMES TATE THE MOTHER IN THE HOUSE by HERMANN HAGEDORN AN ODE OF DEDICATION by HERMANN HAGEDORN EVENING PRAYER by HERMANN HAGEDORN HOW SPRING CAME TO NEW YORK by HERMANN HAGEDORN |
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