Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FATE, by LOUIS JAMES BLOCK First Line: Three steps and I reach the door Last Line: Know faces seen long before. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny | ||||||||
THREE steps and I reach the door, But a whole month rolls between Since last I stood before My shut room's simple scene. I pause at the door and shrink, My hand is at point to turn, But I stand and dimly think Of all I long for and yearn. My life leaps up to me there, The past with its every deed, And I tremble and hardly dare The open mystery to read. A year and a day and awhile, Ay me! there is none escape; Each thought, each dream, each smile Will front me in questioning shape. I open and see what no eyes Save mine have the power to see: Dead scenes and dead griefs arise, Dead follies make mouths at me. Yea, so: through the dark I peer, And shudder away from the door; Voices once heard I hear, Know faces seen long before. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ATTEMPTING TO ANSWER DAVID IGNATOW'S QUESTION by ROBERT BLY FROST AND HIS ENEMIES by ROBERT BLY THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR UNABLE TO FIND by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR TO HELEN KELLER - HUMANITARIAN, SOCIAL DEMOCRAT, GREAT SOUL by EDWIN MARKHAM DOMESDAY BOOK: FINDING OF THE BODY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS WE COME BACK by KENNETH REXROTH THE WAKING (2) by THEODORE ROETHKE SUFFRAGE MARCHING-SONG by LOUIS JAMES BLOCK |
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