Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IMMORTALITY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: We must pass like smoke or live within the spirit's fire Last Line: By unnumbered ways of dream to death. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Immortality | ||||||||
WE must pass like smoke or live within the spirit's fire; For we can no more than smoke unto the flame return: If our thought has changed to dream, our will unto desire, As smoke we vanish though the fire may burn. Lights of infinite pity star the grey dusk of our days: Surely here is soul: with it we have eternal breath: In the fire of love we live, or pass by many ways, By unnumbered ways of dream to death. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WALLACE STEVENS' LETTERS by ROBERT BLY DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING by DAVID IGNATOW I CLOSE MY EYES by DAVID IGNATOW IN 'DESIGNING A CLOAK TO CLOAK HIS DESIGNS' YOU WRESTED FROM OBLIVION by MARIANNE MOORE THE THINGS THAT DIE by GREGORY ORR THE MAN WHO DIED TWICE by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON YOUTH'S IMMORTALITY by GEORGE SANTAYANA A SUMMER NIGHT by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL |
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