Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HAD I WIST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had I wist, when life was like a warm wind playing Last Line: Had I wist.' Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Roses; Roundels; Wind | ||||||||
HAD I wist, when life was like a warm wind playing Light and loud through sundawn and the dew's bright mist, How the time should come for hearts to sight in saying 'Had I wist' -- Surely not the roses, laughing as they kissed, Not the lovelier laugh of seas in sunshine swaying, Should have lured my soul to look thereon and list. Now the wind is like a soul cast out and praying Vainly, prayers that pierce not ears when hearts resist: Now mine own soul sighs, adrift as wind and straying, 'Had I wist.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE THREE CHILDREN by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE WIND by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN LEAF LITTER ON ROCK FACE by HEATHER MCHUGH RESIDENTIAL AREA by JOSEPHINE MILES THE DAY THE WINDS by JOSEPHINE MILES VARIATIONS: 12 by CONRAD AIKEN OH IT'S PRETTY WINDY OUTSIDE by LARRY EIGNER A BALLAD OF DEATH by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE |
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