Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FINIS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poet's Biography First Line: I have filled my book Last Line: Of the priceless gift of time. Subject(s): God; Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
I HAVE filled my book, In odds and ends of time, With fancies and reveries And careless scraps of rhyme. It is,and yet it is not A transcript of my soul; For the passing gleams of light, And the passing clouds that roll Like an unwilled photograph, Have printed their image clear; And the echo of many a laugh And of many a sigh is here. But words are cold, dead things, And little they tell of the heart, Or the burning glow Of the fount below, Whence the glance and the cheek-flush start. I feel there is more within Than may lightly be revealed; What the spirit itself hath but dimly seen To the pen may well be sealed. Yes, I have filled my book, And another will soon begin: But no venturous guess may say What shall be traced within! Shall its songs be all of joy, Or of deepest and keenest woe? I dare not anticipate, And I'm glad that I do not know. Shall its yet unwritten page Be filled by my restless hand? Or shall I be called away To the shores of the Silent Land? One thing I would hope and pray, That its record may brighter shine, That an onward and upward course May be traced in every line. And that some of its words may cheer Some troubled and weary soul, Or point as a waymark clear To the distant yet nearing goal. Then I shall not begrudge my thoughts Their robing of careless rhyme; Or deem them a useless waste Of the priceless gift of Time. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB CONSECRATION HYMN by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL I DID THIS FOR THEE! WHAT HAST THOU DONE FOR ME? by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL A BIRTHDAY GREETING TO MY FATHER, 1860 by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL |
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