Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WITH WAVERING FEET, by VLADIMIR SERGEYEVICH SOLOVYEV Poet's Biography First Line: With wavering feet I walked where dawn-lit mists were lying Last Line: Beaten about with flame of white, triumphal fires. Alternate Author Name(s): Solovyov, Vladimir Subject(s): Mysticism | ||||||||
With wavering feet I walked where dawn-lit mists were lying, To find the shores of wonder and of mystery. Dawn struggled with the final stars, frail dreams were flying, While unto unknown gods my morning lips were crying The prayers that my dream-imprisoned soul had whispered me. The noon is cold and candid, the road winds on severely, And through an unknown land once more my journey lies. The mist has lifted now, and the stark eye sees clearly How hard the mountain-road that rises upward sheerly, How distant looms the dream the prescient heart descries! Yet onward with unfaltering feet I shall be going Toward midnight, onward toward the shore of my desires, Where on a mountain-height, new stars its glory showing, My promised temple waits, with plinth and pillar glowing, Beaten about with flame of white, triumphal fires. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DIAMOND PERSONA by NORMAN DUBIE OUTWARD BOUND by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN by ROBERT BROWNING ECHO AND SILENCE by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES THE BALLAD OF JUDAS ISCARIOT by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN KUBLA KHAN by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE RHOECUS by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL BALLADE AGAINST THE ENEMIES OF FRANCE by FRANCOIS VILLON GYPSY MAN by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES THE FISH, THE MAN, AND THE SPIRIT (COMPLETE) by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT |
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