Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SOUL WHISPERS, by HENRY T. PRAED First Line: How shall I seek to know you Last Line: And the centuries' race be done. Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Past | ||||||||
How shall I seek to know you, Ghosts of my past unknown? When shall my fingers touch you? When shall you take me home? There is an ancient valley, Peopled with age-old trees, There you are ever waiting, You are my thousand "me's." Sometime I must have known you, Sometime I must have seen Your misty forms before me, Dim through a moonlit screen. Dream nights with star-light drifting Down through the purple haze, I seem to hear you chanting Deeds of my former days. And when an earth has faded, And when the light is won, Someday the valley will hold me And the centuries' race be done. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FERGUS FALLING by GALWAY KINNELL A TIME PAST by DENISE LEVERTOV LAST THINGS by WILLIAM MEREDITH CHRISTMAS TREE by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS THIS MORNING, GOD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR |
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