Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LIFE, by EDWARD MOXON


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First Line: Ah! What is life! A dream within a dream
Last Line: And when the goal is won the grave appears.
Subject(s): Life


AH! what is life! a dream within a dream;
A pilgrimage from peril rarely free;
A bark that sails upon a changing sea,
Now sunshine and now storm; a mountain stream,
Heard, but scarce seen ere to the dark deep gone;
A wild star blazing with unsteady beam,
Yet for a season fair to look upon.
Life is an infant on affection's knee,
A youth now full of hope and transient glee,
In manhood's peerless noon now bright, anon,
A time-worn ruin silver'd o'er with years.
Life is a race where slippery steeps arise,
Where discontent and sorrow are the prize,
And when the goal is won the grave appears.





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