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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SAD SENSES; COMMEMORATING ANNIVERSARY DEATH OF JOHN KINGSTON FINERAN, by JOSEPH T. KELLY First Line: These were no eyes to gaze on paradise Last Line: The things which are not but which might have been. Subject(s): Fineran, John Kingston (1907-1937) | |||
These were no eyes to gaze on Paradise, Or see the mad wild Furies as they danced; Nor were these ears to hear the charming cries That Siren-taken Ulysses so entranced. These lips were not to taste the nectared wine, Or of the rich ambrosial dainty take; Nor were these hands the hallowed hands to shrine The velvet breasts of Nymphs within the brake. These feet have never trod the holy lands, Of preaching-prophet, Holy-man conceived; Nor have these senses known the sacred sands, But these are senses wasted, worn, bereaved: For they have tasted, touched and heard and seen The things which are not but which might have been. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AN ANSWER TO THE PARSON by WILLIAM BLAKE THE JOYS OF THE ROAD by BLISS CARMAN ESTONIAN BRIDAL SONG by JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON HERDER TRAVELOGUE by EVA K. ANGLESBURG PSALM 8. DOMINE DOMINUS by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE THE ENTERED APPRENTICES' SONG by MATTHEW BIRKHEAD |
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