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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
POETRY BY THE WAY-SIDE, by JOHN HANMER First Line: Wandering along the vision-haunted way Last Line: The shows of things conformed to his desires. | |||
Wandering along the vision-haunted way, One did I meet, whom straight my heart did know; But in strange seeming he was pleased to go, And quaint, as by the forest-brook the jay; The leaf-hid brook, with one particular ray That the sun gilds, and of his orbed glow Gives thence suggestion to the sense; e'en so On mine the quick poetic spirit did play, From a feather in the head of one who followed A trade associate with the tortoise-shell, Client of Mercury, through the towns and shires, A rude Autolycus with hat rain-hollowed; And still, as droopt fantastically it fell, The shows of things conformed to his desires. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE by JAMES GALVIN BLUEFLAGS by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS SONNET TO TARTAR, A TERRIER BEAUTY by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES THE COLORED SOLDIERS by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR RENASCENCE by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY SONG OF SHERWOOD by ALFRED NOYES THE NIGHTINGALE by PHILIP SIDNEY POCAHONTAS [JANUARY 5, 1608] by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, IN NEW-ENGLAND by PHILLIS WHEATLEY |
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