Poetry Explorer

Classic and Contemporary Poetry

COMPANY by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

First Line: I THOUGHT, 'HOW TERRIBLE, IF I WERE SEEN
Last Line: "I THOUGHT, ""WHY SHOULD I, IF THE REST ARE SO?"
Subject(s): GOD; JUDGMENT DAY; SIN; END OF THE WORLD; DOOMSDAY; FALL OF MAN;
I thought, "How terrible, if I were seen
Just as in will and deed I have always been!
And if this were the fate that I must face
At the last day, and all else were God's grace,
How must I shrink and cower before them there,
Stripped naked to the soul and beggared bare
Of every rag of seeming!" Then, "Why, no,"
I thought, "why should I, if the rest are so?"



Home: PoetryExplorer.net