Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DOORS, by HERMANN HAGEDORN



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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.








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