Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A CALIFORNIA PILGRIMAGE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL First Line: I questioned thus with the spirit Last Line: "how can the thread give out?" | ||||||||
I questioned thus with the spirit: "O, how can I do this thing? The pattern is long and hard," I said, "My thought but a slender string." "O, faithless child," quoth the spirit, "Begin but to weave, nor doubt; While the other end of the skein we hold, How can the thread give out?" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A BILIOUS DAY by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL A CHOICE by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL A CONSECRATION FOR A NON-SECTARIAN CHURCH by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL A GOOD FRIDAY DEVOTION by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL A GRIZZLY IN THE ZOO by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL A NUBIAN LION by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL A PRE-ADAMITE ON EVOLUTION by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL A RUSTIC BRIDGE by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL A SPINSTER by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL A STANFORD HYMN by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL |
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