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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SO MANY LIVES, by VIVIAN YEISER First Line: I find I am not one but all Last Line: And I must live them all, it seems. Alternate Author Name(s): Laramore, Mrs. Robert Eugene | |||
I find I am not one but all Who touch my life and there let fall A fragment of their hell or heaven. So many lives in me now leaven The whole that when I cry aloud I hear the humble and the proud: The felon bound behind his bars, Beethoven, reaching for the stars, Poor Judas, doomed to endless grief. And Caesar, proud beyond belief; The man who lost, the man who won, And Mary weeping for her Son. All these in me are more than I, The while I daily multiply Their tears and triumph, strength and shame, Extolling none, nor finding blame, Since half of me is Judas-weak And half would "turn the other cheek" ... So many lives ... so many dreams, And I must live them all, it seems. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONG FOR THE FIRST OF THE MONTH by DOROTHY PARKER BOATS IN A FOG by ROBINSON JEFFERS A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 1. HIS EXCUSE FOR LOVING by BEN JONSON THE LAMENTATION OF GLUMDALCLITCH FOR THE LOSS OF GRILDRIG by ALEXANDER POPE HER FIRST-BORN by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER THE BRITISH PHILIPPIC by MARK AKENSIDE MOONRISE AT SEA by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |
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