Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SYMBOLS, by JOHN DRINKWATER



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First Line: I saw history in a poet's song
Last Line: In the shadow that went by the side of me.


I SAW history in a poet's song,
In a river-reach and a gallows-hill,
In a bridal bed, and a secret wrong,
In a crown of thorns: in a daffodil.

I imagined measureless time in a day,
And starry space in a waggon-road,
And the treasure of all good harvests lay
In the single seed that the sower sowed.

My garden-wind had driven and havened again
All ships that ever had gone to sea,
And I saw the glory of all dead men
In the shadow that went by the side of me.





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