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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LONELINESS, by HAZEL HALL Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes when I am long alone
Last Line: Then I am lonely now.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness
First Line: Sometimes when I am long alone
Last Line: Then I am lonely now.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness
Sometimes when I am long alone
I wonder what is loneliness --
This silence like a deep bell's tone --
These moments, motionless?
This hush above the nervous street? --
Removed as is the tree that stands,
Hill-high, with burrowing root-feet
And boughs like reaching hands.
As in my blood I feel life press,
Like sap into the frailest bough,
I think if such is loneliness
Then I am lonely now.
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