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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
YOUTH, by LUCY KENT
First Line: The suddenness of life was mine
Last Line: Was like a shoulder in the breeze.
Subject(s): Life; March (month); Rain; Windows; Youth
First Line: The suddenness of life was mine
Last Line: Was like a shoulder in the breeze.
Subject(s): Life; March (month); Rain; Windows; Youth
The suddenness of life was mine
When first through my awakened eye
I saw, and held my breath to see,
The polished emerald of the sky.
There never was a thing as fine
I thought, as this upon my pane,
The magnified magnificence
Of one small drop of rain.
And in the smoky hour of dawn
Along the way where I would pass,
The dew-drops were like jewels on
The long-stretched fingers of the grass.
The brown-lipped passion of the earth
In March, spanned life's antithesis --
When every naked bending bough,
Was like a shoulder in the breeze.
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