Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AT MY FIRESIDE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES


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First Line: Alone, beneath the darkened sky
Last Line: Flames on the windows of the past.


ALONE, beneath the darkened sky,
With saddened heart and unstrung lyre,
I heap the spoils of years gone by,
And leave them with a long-drawn sigh,
Like drift-wood brands that glimmering lie,
Before the ashes hide the fire.

Let not these slow declining days
The rosy light of dawn outlast;
Still round my lonely hearth it plays,
And gilds the east with borrowed rays,
While memory's mirrored sunset blaze
Flames on the windows of the past.





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