Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, UNSEEN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER


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First Line: There are more things in heaven and earth
Last Line: And know a world of mystery is near.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Life; Nature; Wisdom


THERE are more things in Heaven and Earth than we
Can dream of, or than nature understands;
We learn not through our poor philosophy
What hidden chords are touched by unseen hands.

The present hour repeats upon its strings
Echoes of some vague dream we have forgot;
Dim voices whisper half-remembered things,
And when we pause to listen -- answer not.

Forebodings come: we know not how, or whence,
Shadowing a nameless fear upon the soul,
And stir within our hearts a subtler sense
Than light may read, or wisdom may control.

And who can tell what secret links of thought
Bind heart to heart? Unspoken things are heard,
As if within our deepest selves was brought
The soul, perhaps, of some unuttered word.

But, though a veil of shadow hangs between
That hidden life and what we see and hear,
Let us revere the power of the Unseen,
And know a world of mystery is near.





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