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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FACES, by HAROLD TROWBRIDGE PULSIFER Poet's Biography
First Line: Four faces in the dark
Last Line: Calm and unafraid.
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
First Line: Four faces in the dark
Last Line: Calm and unafraid.
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
Four faces in the dark,
Eight eyes aglow
With the pale lunar spark
Fireflies do show.
Four brows, specter-white,
Crowned with lambent hair; --
Only in the blackest night
Are these things there.
Eight lips that question me,
Moving to and fro;
Quiet as shadows be
On new-fallen snow.
Eight hands beckoning,
Spindrift of the wind; --
Past all mortal reckoning
Are phantoms of the mind.
Deep, return to deep again,
And old dreams fade.
Children, let me sleep again,
Calm and unafraid.
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