Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SUMMONS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY


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First Line: Why am I changed?
Last Line: The way I go!
Subject(s): Friendship


WHY am I changed?
I had not known
A face could dull so quick to grey—
This line. ...this sharpened bone. ...
Things to be hid away!

I think a stranger passed me in the night,
There was wind in my hair. ...
My heart beat sudden, large and light,
I cried, "Who's there?". ...

I think of yesterday
And it is strange. ...
I must have lost the key
That made it possible and part of me. ...

I think of friends. ...my hands
With timid touch a friendly hand enfold—
What fantasy is this?..I do not know
Whose hand it is I hold!

Thin and diffused as light
And unfamiliar as a stranger's face
Is earth's warm ring—
Distant am I as any star in space
From living thing—

Voices may echo,
Lips may touch and cling,
Hands tremble to bestow—
But never yet has soul companioned soul
The way I go!





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