Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MIRACLES, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH


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First Line: Sick of myself and all that keeps the light
Last Line: And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas.
Variant Title(s): Sunset
Subject(s): Miracles; Nature


SICK of myself and all that keeps the light
Of the blue skies away from me and mine,
I climb this ledge, and by this wind-swept pine
Lingering, watch the coming of the night.
'T is ever a new wonder to my sight.
Men look to God for some mysterious sign,
For other stars than those that nightly shine,
For some unnatural symbol of His might: --
Wouldst see a miracle as grand as those
The prophets wrought of old in Palestine?
Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows
In yonder West; the fair, frail palaces,
The fading alps and archipelagoes,
And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas.





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