Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OPPORTUNITY, by JANE BARLOW Poet's Biography First Line: If this befell: at some fair dawning-time Last Line: Enclose your spirit like a dungeon-grate? Subject(s): Procrastination | ||||||||
IF this befell: At some fair dawning-time, Ere failed the wistful world its dreams and dew, Sheer from the height of heaven reached down to you A cloud-piled stair more pure than glistening rime, And firm as marble wrought, in flights sublime That pierced the void, whence lights come faint and few, Beyond all starry outposts: toward what new Wild-wondered shoresah, would you dare to climb? And if, while yet you doubted, lo, too late, You saw it reft past range of fear and hope, Caught up the vast, and here you needs must wait Mere day's returning; would not narrow scope Wide earth yield? Yea, the azure's amplest cope Enclose your spirit like a dungeon-grate? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INDISPENSABLE by BERTON BRALEY SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 90 by BLISS CARMAN TALE: 4. PROCRASTINATION by GEORGE CRABBE PROMENADING PSYCHOLOGY by F. K. CURTIS PROCRASTINATION by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON WHALAN OF WAITIN' A WHILE by J. W. GORDON SHADOW SHIPS by NEWTON MARSHALL HALL A CURLEW'S CALL by JANE BARLOW |
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