Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HIS STATEMENT OF THE CASE, by JAMES HERBERT MORSE Poet's Biography First Line: Now half a hundred years had I been born Last Line: "upon the rustic roads where I now go." | ||||||||
"NOW half a hundred years had I been born -- So many and so brief -- when made aware, By Time's blunt looks, of hoar-frost in my hair. I turned to one of twenty, in the corn, At husking time, that blissful autumn morn, And said, ' What if the red ear fall to me ?' I would not for the world have any see The look, half doubtful, mazeful, half in scorn, That grew through all degrees, then broke in laughter, As she ran down among the beardless men. I left the husking, nor returned thereafter, That autumn morn, nor any morn since then. But you shall see gray beards in a long row, Upon the rustic roads where I now go." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SILENCE by JAMES HERBERT MORSE THE WAYSIDE by JAMES HERBERT MORSE THE WILD GEESE by JAMES HERBERT MORSE NOBODY'S LOOKIN' BUT DE OWL AND DE MOON (A NEGRO SERENADE) by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON AUGUST MOONRISE by SARA TEASDALE DRESSING THE BRIDE (A FRAGMENT) by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH A SONG OF PROGRESS by ALEXANDER ANDERSON STANZAS: IN THE MANNER OF SPENSER by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD QUATORZAINS: 3. RIVULETS by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |
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