Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A PREMONITION; CAMBRIDGE, OCTOBER 1913, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grey walls, broad fields, fresh voices, rippling weir Last Line: And knowledge is a pang, like love of yore. Subject(s): Cambridge, England; Worry | ||||||||
Grey walls, broad fields, fresh voices, rippling weir, I know you well: ten faces, for each face That passes smiling, haunt this hallowed place, And nothing not thrice noted greets me here. Soft watery winds, wide twilight skies and clear, Refresh my spirit at its founts of grace, And a strange sorrow masters me, to pace These willowed paths, in this autumnal year. Soon, lovely England, soon thy secular dreams, Thy lisping comrades, shall be thine no more. A world's loosed troubles flood thy gated streams And drown, methinks, thy towers; and the tears start As if an iron hand had clutched my heart, And knowledge is a pang, like love of yore. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DID THIS HAPPEN TO YOUR MOTHER? by ALICE WALKER NEBRASKA HYMN TO DEMETER by ELEANOR WILNER TRIOLETS IN THE ARGOLID by RACHEL HADAS IN THE BLACK CAMARO by DAVID BOTTOMS THE DREADED TASK by MARGARET E. BRUNER ASHES TO ASHES by HARRIET WINTON DAVIS |
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