Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 14, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. First Line: Life is a dream in the eternal sleep Last Line: Heaven denied, mid depths of hell unknown. Subject(s): Love; Sleep | ||||||||
Life is a dream in the Eternal Sleep, And love the fancy of its little hour. How like a vision, when there slowly creep Known faces and unknown that peer and lower O'er hidden corners, and of sorrow's pall Make hideous mockery; where alternate Hope and despair, mad agony and all The aching pangs of ruth bow to dumb Fate, The prescient power that dims their moment's light. O may love's passionate and pulsing breath Fire fancy's bourgeouny 'round my dark night And crown my sleep with heaven's star-gold wreath. Life without love, it were a tear-swept moan, Heaven denied, mid depths of hell unknown. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...YOU'S SWEET TO YO' MAMMY JES DE SAME by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON CHAMBER MUSIC: 3 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 22 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 34 by JAMES JOYCE GOING TO SLEEP by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN THE BLUE NAP by WILLIAM MATTHEWS AND WHAT SHALL YOU SAY? by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. |
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