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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SUNDERED PATHS, by MATHILDE BLIND Poet's Biography First Line: Two travellers, worn with sun and rain Last Line: And drown their voices each from each. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips | |||
TWO travellers, worn with sun and rain And gropings o'er dim paths unknown, Meet where long separate ways have grown To one, and then diverge again. They halt anigh the green wayside, Where groves pant with the impassioned song Of nightingales; wild roses throng There round them leaning side by side. As close and still more close they cling, Like some weird tale -- once more in dreams Lived through with ghastlier horror -- seems That old, cold, lonely wayfairing. Oh close sweet clasp of hands! oh sweet Close beat of heart on happy heart; Beating as though no more apart Their pulses ever again should beat! One look of love! one long embrace! One kiss that welds two lives in one! And lo, the sudden lifted sun Lights their slow feet on separate ways. Fledged by strong love, their winged speech Is borne awhile from soul to soul, Then ever-widening waters roll And drown their voices each from each. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RICHARD, WHAT'S THAT NOISE? by RICHARD HOWARD LOOKING FOR THE GULF MOTEL by RICHARD BLANCO RIVERS INTO SEAS by LYNDA HULL DESTINATIONS by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE ONE WHO WAS DIFFERENT by RANDALL JARRELL THE CONFESSION OF ST. JIM-RALPH by DENIS JOHNSON SESTINA: TRAVEL NOTES by WELDON KEES TO H. B. (WITH A BOOK OF VERSE) by MAURICE BARING |
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