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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
UNDERSTANDING, by SARA TEASDALE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: I understood the rest too well
Last Line: Ages ago in waters cold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
First Line: I understood the rest too well
Last Line: Ages ago in waters cold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
I understood the rest too well,
And all their thoughts have come to be
Clear as grey sea-weed in the swell
Of a sunny shallow sea.
But you I never understood,
Your spirit's secret hides like gold
Sunk in a Spanish galleon
Ages ago in waters cold.
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