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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PRESENTIMENTS, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE First Line: Our lives are double: they were not designed Last Line: And blows it backward for a little space. | |||
OUR lives are double: they were not designed For holding narrowly to their estate Of things material; they penetrate The region of illimitable mind And spirit, roaming free, and unconfined, In thought or dream; and somehow even Fate Half tells her secret at the boundary gate Through broken flashes or foreshadowings blind. Life hath its vision, although knowledge fails: We stand like those who, from a lofty place, Discern at times the gleam of sunlit sails, Or think they do, far off, on ocean's face, When o'er the mist the fitful wind prevails, And blows it backward for a little space. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A POET'S CENTENARY by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE A SONG OF BATTLE by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE A VOICE by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE AD MUSAM by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE ALL SOUL'S EVE by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE AN APOSTOLIC MAN by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE AN EAGLE-SPIRIT by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE AN OLD SAW by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE CONSCIENCE by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE COOPERATION by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE |
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