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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OLD AGE ALONE, by EMILY RANDLE
First Line: Resilient swallow-wings tonight have wound
Last Line: Dreading the way those ominous wings have flown.
Subject(s): Old Age
First Line: Resilient swallow-wings tonight have wound
Last Line: Dreading the way those ominous wings have flown.
Subject(s): Old Age
Resilient swallow-wings tonight have wound
About the old home roof-tree many times,
Their plumage rusty brown, and lost the rimes
Of "Mother Goose" they used to sweep around;
These urgent pinions occultly wheel near
And scrape the brick on chimney tops until
They swiveling descend, and yet are still
Aloft -- Can it be ghosts of whirls I hear
Sallying on premonitory feet
That tread the solitude and frighten me
At dead of night? Come quickly, dawn, delete
This wraith with lustral beams; come goldenly
To the dim corner where I sit alone
Dreading the way those ominous wings have flown.
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