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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OR EVER THE EARTH WAS, by CHARLES LEONARD MOORE Poet's Biography First Line: That which shall last for aye can have no birth Last Line: Speak, o dim traveller, speak: thy host believes! | |||
THAT which shall last for aye can have no birth. Thou art immortal! therefore thou hast been A voyage to which the journey of the earth Is but the shifting of some tawdry scene. Thou wert not absent when the camp began Of the great captains of the middle air, -- Sirius and Vega and Aldebaran, -- Myriads, and but the marshals numbered there; Ay, earlier yet in the God-purposed void, The dream and desert of oblivion, Thou livedst, -- a thought of one to be employed Ere yet Time's garments thou didst take and don: Guest that no footprint on my threshold leaves, -- Speak, O dim traveller, speak: thy host believes! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SOUL UNTO SOUL GLOOMS DARKLING by CHARLES LEONARD MOORE THEN SHALL WE SEE by CHARLES LEONARD MOORE THOU LIVEST, O SOUL! by CHARLES LEONARD MOORE TO ENGLAND by CHARLES LEONARD MOORE ENVOYS by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE WALL STREET PIT, MAY, 1901 by EDWIN MARKHAM SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 35 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE LADY POVERTY by ALICE MEYNELL |
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