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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OUTLOOK, by IVAN SWIFT
First Line: As though with new eyes I have seen the dawn
Last Line: Old sufferer, old sage, old horoscope!
Subject(s): Youth
First Line: As though with new eyes I have seen the dawn
Last Line: Old sufferer, old sage, old horoscope!
Subject(s): Youth
As though with new eyes I have seen the dawn
Announced from western skies above the lake;
And bright vermilion ships of consort drawn
Along the line determined by the rake
Of shining spars and thread of island reef:
All gold and calm save where an off-shore draft
Lays bluer patterns of fan-palm leaf
Beyond the rock and stirring sea-gull's raft.
So have I now, as not before surmised,
A new and fearless youth released of pain;
Heedless of speculative ends long prized
And grief begot of ease and idle hope:
As when I turn the pages of Montaigne --
Old sufferer, old sage, old horoscope!
Other Poems of Interest...
AFTER THE GENTLE POET KOBAYASHI ISSA by ROBERT HASS
BETWEEN THE WARS by ROBERT HASS
THE GOLDEN SHOVEL by TERRANCE HAYES
ALONG WITH YOUTH by ERNEST HEMINGWAY