Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LONGING, by LEWIS A. CORN


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LONGING, by                    
First Line: There's a longing in my heart I can not still
Last Line: And my heart will rest for there will be peace.
Subject(s): Longing


There's a longing in my heart I can not still,
A whispering, a sighing, like a whippoorwill
Pleading his woes from a high oak tree,
Calling my heart again to be free,
Tugging and pulling like the wind at play,
Like oak leaves whispering all the day.
I feel it when the pine trees sigh,
I hear it in the wild birds' cry,
I see it in the eastern sky
At close of day when night is nigh.
Some day I'll break, I know I will,
I'll go trudging again up that rocky hill,
Where the sky is blue and the winds never cease,
And my heart will rest for there will be peace.





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