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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CAUTION, by GERTRUDE CALLAGHAN First Line: Lurking in a velvet shadow Last Line: What lies sleeping might awake! Subject(s): Prudence; Caution | |||
Lurking in a velvet shadow, She is still and cool and deep -- Tread here softly lest you waken What she cradled into sleep. Only stand upon her threshold; Though her word be quiet-kind Never step within a certain Curious doorway of her mind. Come with gentle understanding, Guarding silence for her sake -- At a tremor or a heart-beat What lies sleeping might awake! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RIFLEMAN FORM! by ALFRED TENNYSON THE CAUTIOUS HOUSEHOLDER by ANAXILAS THE ELDER'S WARNING; A LAY OF THE CONVOCATION by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN OF CAUTION by FRANCESCO DA BARBERINI PRUDENCE by RALPH WALDO EMERSON A MAIDEN'S DREAM by ROBERT GREENE THE SECRET by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD TO RODIN'S STATUE OF AN OLD COURTESAN by GERTRUDE CALLAGHAN |
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