I VEX me not with brooding on the years That were ere I drew breath: why should I then Distrust the darkness that may fall again When life is done ? Perchance in other spheres - Dead planets - I once tasted mortal tears, And walked as now amid a throng of men, Pondering things that lay beyond my ken, Questioning death, and solacing my fears. Ofttimes indeed strange sense have I of this, Vague memories that hold me with a spell, Touches of unseen lips upon my brow, Breathing some incommunicable bliss In years foregone, O Soul, was all not well ? Still lovelier life awaits thee. Fear not thou! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 10 by EZRA POUND THE ARTILLERYMAN'S VISION by WALT WHITMAN SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 2 by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY THE KNIGHTS: THE POET AND HIS RIVALS by ARISTOPHANES |