Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, INQUIETUDE, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY


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INQUIETUDE, by                    
First Line: Me thought the icy hand of time had chillled
Last Line: And reach my home of rest by quiet ways?
Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe


METHOUGHT the icy hand of Time had chilled
The gushing fount of passion in my breast --
Methought that Reason's power, for aye, had stilled
The bitter struggles of my heart's unrest.

Cold, calm, and self-possessing, I had deemed
In quiet now to view life slip away --
Forgetting much that once my soul had dreamed,
And lengthening out in peace my little day.

Safe in indifference, I had vainly hoped
To scorn the sympathy I might not share,
And little thought mine own hand would have oped
My bosom's portal to returning care.

How burns the blush of shame upon my cheek --
How bends to earth in grief my haughty brow,
When thus I find myself disarmed and weak
Before the ideal shapes that haunt me now!

Oh God! how long, misled by erring thought,
Shall I grope darkly on in feeling's maze?
When shall I be by Time's sad lessons taught,
And reach my home of rest by quiet ways?





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