Classic and Contemporary Poetry
QUIET WATERS, by BLANCHE SHOEMAKER WAGSTAFF Poet's Biography First Line: Our lives float on quiet waters Last Line: On the turbulent, open sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Carr, Mrs. Donald | ||||||||
OUR LIVES float on quiet waters . . . Down softly flowing streams, Where silvery willows Shadow calm waves. Gentle bird-songs And murmuring freshets Leap from the woodland In snowy circlets. Green embowers us, And fragrant mosses, Spicy odors That drift in the languid Swaying breezes . . . Our lives float on quiet waters . . . And my Love and I Wonder at twilight, When flaming banners Spread in the heavens, How long this Beauty -- This stately silence . . . E'er once again we shall drift On the turbulent, open sea. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HERITAGE by BLANCHE SHOEMAKER WAGSTAFF THE TRANSIENCE OF HANDS by KAREN SWENSON THERE IS NO NATURAL RELIGION (B) by WILLIAM BLAKE GREEN SYMPHONY by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER THE SLAVE MOTHER by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER THE AMERICAN FOREST GIRL by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 100 by OMAR KHAYYAM A VALENTINE by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS FOUR THINGS [TO DO] by HENRY VAN DYKE |
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