Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SUMMONS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poet's Biography First Line: Why am I changed? Last Line: The way I go! Subject(s): Friendship | ||||||||
WHY am I changed? I had not known A face could dull so quick to grey This line. ...this sharpened bone. ... Things to be hid away! I think a stranger passed me in the night, There was wind in my hair. ... My heart beat sudden, large and light, I cried, "Who's there?". ... I think of yesterday And it is strange. ... I must have lost the key That made it possible and part of me. ... I think of friends. ...my hands With timid touch a friendly hand enfold What fantasy is this?..I do not know Whose hand it is I hold! Thin and diffused as light And unfamiliar as a stranger's face Is earth's warm ring Distant am I as any star in space From living thing Voices may echo, Lips may touch and cling, Hands tremble to bestow But never yet has soul companioned soul The way I go! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...YOU & I BELONG IN THIS KITCHEN by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JASON THE REAL by TONY HOAGLAND NO RESURRECTION by ROBINSON JEFFERS CHAMBER MUSIC: 17 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 18 by JAMES JOYCE THE STONE TABLE by GALWAY KINNELL ALMSWOMAN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN TO AN ENEMY by MAXWELL BODENHEIM SONNET: 10. TO A FRIEND by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES A CHRISTMAS CHILD by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY |
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