Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MYSTERIES, by ALICE CARY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds, with a little light between Last Line: The beating of my heart. Subject(s): Trust; Faith; Knowledge | ||||||||
CLOUDS, with a little light between; Pain, passion, fear, and doubt, -- What voice shall tell me what they mean? I cannot find them out! Hopeless my task is, to begin, Who fail with all my power, To read the crimson lettering in The modest meadow flower. Death, with shut eyes and icy cheek, Bearing that bitter cup; Oh, who is wise enough to speak, And break its silence up! Or read the evil writing on The wall of good, for, oh, The more my reason shines upon Its lines, the less I know: Or show how dust became a rose, And what it is above All mysteries that doth compose Discordance into love. I only know that wisdom planned, And that it is my part To trust, who cannot understand The beating of my heart. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOW DO YOU KNOW? by EVE MERRIAM ENLIGHTENMENT by JOSEPHINE MILES PHYSIOLOGUS by JOSEPHINE MILES A COLLEGELANDS CATECHISM by PAUL MULDOON THE BEAR AND THE MAN by ROBERT BLY A PARIS BLACKBIRD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR THE LIGHT THAT CAME TO LUCILLE CLIFTON by LUCILLE CLIFTON THE CLOUDS OF MAGELLAN (APHORISMS OF MR. CANON ASPIRIN) by NORMAN DUBIE THE MOTHS: 1. CIRCA 1952 by NORMAN DUBIE A SPINSTER'S STINT by ALICE CARY |
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