Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MATURITY, by HARRIET SEYMOUR POPOWSKI


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MATURITY, by                    
First Line: Seeing the fury of the rushing rain
Last Line: Pools whose quiet flow sustains an ocean.
Subject(s): Maturity; Nature; Youth


Seeing the fury of the rushing rain
Pound the clear bosom of that mountain stream
Into a turbulence of blackened pain,
He wept the hour that lost him youth's bright laughter,
Fearing the troubled darkness to come after.

Yet after brooding days he saw again,
Moving on steadily, the joyous stream
Cleared of its temporary muddy stain;
And saw between the riffles in gay motion,
Pools whose quiet flow sustains an ocean.





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