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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LIFE, by TESSA SWEAZY WEBB First Line: This, then, is life ... Of such our dreams are made Last Line: Our dreams are vain, no doubt, but exquisite. | |||
This, then, is life . . . of such our dreams are made, Eternal reaching out toward some strange land, To seize the fragile joys with eager hand -- The brief, elusive joys that had betrayed Our questing mind. Through dawnings unafraid, We seek the power that makes a grain of sand, Or whirls a star in space at its command, And find no answer, but are undismayed. We follow silhouettes: a shadow blur Upon a cloud; the quiet stabbed by thunder; A rainbow bridging space and lovelier Than any man-made citadel of wonder. And while we travel onward, bit by bit, Our dreams are vain, no doubt, but exquisite. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OLD THINGS by TESSA SWEAZY WEBB THE BALLAD OF WILLIAM SYCAMORE (1790-1880) by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET A BALLAD OF SARSFIELD; OR, THE BURSTING OF THE GUNS by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE THOUGHTS WHILE PACKING A TRUNK by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 98. HE AND I by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI |
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