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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LITTLE GRAY SONGS FROM ST. JOSEPH'S: 6, by GRACE FALLOW NORTON Poet's Biography First Line: My little soul I never saw Last Line: And cannot understand. Variant Title(s): Love Is A Terrible Thin Subject(s): Soul | |||
My little soul I never saw, Nor can I count its days; I do not know its wondrous law And yet I know its ways. O it is young as morning-hours, And old as is the night; O it has growth of budding flowers, Yet tastes my body's blight. And it is silent and apart, And far and fair and still, Yet ever beats within my heart, And cries within my will. And it is light and bright and strange, And sees life far away, Yet far with near can interchange And dwell within the day. My soul has died a thousand deaths, And yet it does not die; My soul has broke a thousand faiths, And yet it cannot lie; My soul -- there's naught can make it less; My soul -- there's naught can mar; Yet here it weeps with loneliness Within its lonely star. My soul -- not any dark can bind, Nor hinder any hand, Yet here it weeps -- long blind, long blind -- And cannot understand. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CRUEL FALCON by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE WHOLE SOUL by PHILIP LEVINE I KNOW MY SOUL by CLAUDE MCKAY HONORING THE SAND; IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH CAMPBELL by ROBERT BLY THE CHINESE PEAKS; FOR DONALD HALL by ROBERT BLY THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE EXHUMATION by ANNE CARSON LITTLE GRAY SONGS FROM ST. JOSEPH'S: 1 by GRACE FALLOW NORTON LITTLE GRAY SONGS FROM ST. JOSEPH'S: 30 by GRACE FALLOW NORTON LITTLE GRAY SONGS FROM ST. JOSEPH'S: 47 by GRACE FALLOW NORTON |
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