Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WALL, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot answer, though I hear you call Last Line: But when I waken, I beholdthe wall! Subject(s): Walls | ||||||||
I CANNOT answer, though I hear you call! Ah, yes, I hear you, but I wait, I wait. ... I am a prisoner behind a wall In honor bound unto my jailer, Fate! Within the wall, I wander as I please; Full well my jailer knows he takes no chance, Full well he knows he has no need of keys I will not scale the wall of Circumstance! But here behind the wall, I dreamstrange dreams That trouble, yet that somehow comfort me Of open fields, wide skies and running streams, Of flying birds, of all things happy, free! And always in my dream, I hear you call, But when I waken, I beholdthe wall! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE WRONG QUESTIONS by ANNE CARSON COMES WINTER, THE SEA HUNTING by NORMAN DUBIE ATMOSPHERE; INSCRIPTION FOR A GARDEN WALL by ROBERT FROST UP AGAINST IT by ELEANOR WILNER BARTLEBY AT THE WALL by JACK GILBERT WALLS by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. A DESERTED HOUSE by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY |
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