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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FUGITIVE, by PRINGLE BARRET
First Line: I said, I will escape
Last Line: But peace still tarries, and I wait alone.
Subject(s): Solitude; Wellesley College; Loneliness
First Line: I said, I will escape
Last Line: But peace still tarries, and I wait alone.
Subject(s): Solitude; Wellesley College; Loneliness
I SAID, "I will escape
This stricken world of futile little men,
I will seek peace." And then
I set my hands to shape
Four walls of clay
To shield my soul in silence from the day,
And fashioned for my door a graven stone.
But peace still tarries, and I wait alone.
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