Classic and Contemporary Poetry
QUIET WATERS, by BLANCHE SHOEMAKER WAGSTAFF Poet's Biography First Line: Our lives float on quiet waters Last Line: On the turbulent, open sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Carr, Mrs. Donald | ||||||||
OUR LIVES float on quiet waters . . . Down softly flowing streams, Where silvery willows Shadow calm waves. Gentle bird-songs And murmuring freshets Leap from the woodland In snowy circlets. Green embowers us, And fragrant mosses, Spicy odors That drift in the languid Swaying breezes . . . Our lives float on quiet waters . . . And my Love and I Wonder at twilight, When flaming banners Spread in the heavens, How long this Beauty -- This stately silence . . . E'er once again we shall drift On the turbulent, open sea. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HERITAGE by BLANCHE SHOEMAKER WAGSTAFF WAITING IN THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL by CLARENCE MAJOR THE HERETIC: 3. MOCKERY by LOUIS UNTERMEYER THE SELF-UNSEEING by THOMAS HARDY THE GREAT SAINT BERNARD by SAMUEL ROGERS THE LEPER by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE EPISTLE TO DR. ENFIELD ON HIS REVISITING WARRINGTON IN 1789 by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |
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