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THE CERTAIN KNOT OF PEACE by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD

Poet Analysis

First Line: SO, MY PROUD SOUL, SO YOU, WHOSE SHINING FORCE
Last Line: SILENCED BY SLEEP.
Subject(s): SLEEP;

SO, my proud soul, so you, whose shining force
Had galloped with me to eternity,
Stand now, appealing like a tired horse:
Unharness me.

O passionate world! O faces of my friends!
O half-grasped meanings, intricate and deep!—
Sudden, as with a child, the tumult ends,
Silenced by sleep.



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