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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
QUIET WATERS, by BLANCHE SHOEMAKER WAGSTAFF Poet's Biography First Line: Our lives float on quiet waters Last Line: On the turbulent, open sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Carr, Mrs. Donald | |||
OUR LIVES float on quiet waters . . . Down softly flowing streams, Where silvery willows Shadow calm waves. Gentle bird-songs And murmuring freshets Leap from the woodland In snowy circlets. Green embowers us, And fragrant mosses, Spicy odors That drift in the languid Swaying breezes . . . Our lives float on quiet waters . . . And my Love and I Wonder at twilight, When flaming banners Spread in the heavens, How long this Beauty -- This stately silence . . . E'er once again we shall drift On the turbulent, open sea. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HERITAGE by BLANCHE SHOEMAKER WAGSTAFF ADOLF EICHMANN by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE VICTOR AT ANTIETAM [SEPTEMBER 17, 1862] by HERMAN MELVILLE DOWN BY THE SALLEY GARDENS by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE GODODDIN: THE DEATH OF HOEL by ANEIRIN A SONNET. ON THE DEATH OF SYLVIA by PHILIP AYRES THE POET, AND HIS INTERPRETERS by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON TO THE AUTHOR OF TEUCHSA GRONDIE by LEVI BISHOP AUTUMN LOVE by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK HAYMAKERS' SONG, FR. KING RENE'S HONEYMOON by GORDON BOTTOMLEY |
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