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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LIVING AGAIN, by LOUISE A. JOHNSON
First Line: Her life, proscribed and narrow, had been spent
Last Line: To clothe anew the life she thought was dead.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion; Relationships
First Line: Her life, proscribed and narrow, had been spent
Last Line: To clothe anew the life she thought was dead.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Passion; Relationships
Her life, proscribed and narrow, had been spent
Immured in dull and characterless rooms.
Outside, bare trees, as stark as rows of tombs,
Served but to add to her great discontent.
"My life is drab as this coarse gown." The pent,
Still passion of her words thus voiced the glooms
And hopelessness to which existence dooms
The one whose thoughts are all on self intent.
Then there had come the miracle of snow
And changed bare boughs to drifts of fairy lace.
The setting sun wove in some golden thread.
And something brought her sordid soul to know
That she could make the beauty in each place
To clothe anew the life she thought was dead.
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