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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FAILURE, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poet's Biography First Line: Is this success, this bitter fruit Last Line: And ever out of reach, the sky. Subject(s): Failure | |||
IS this success, this bitter fruit So full of worm and stain and scar? I hark me to the years afar, When from the skies I tore a star, And in my soul I bade it root. Now all the song in me is mute, And all the hope in me is fled, And all the faith in me is dead, No more a house of dreams am I, And ever out of reach, the sky. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DEEP SORRINESS ATONEMENT SONG by GLYN MAXWELL FAILURES IN INFINITIVES by BERNADETTE MAYER ELLIPTICAL by HARRYETTE MULLEN I GO BACK TO MAY 1937 by SHARON OLDS MATER IN EXTREMIS by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER |
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