Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LIFE, by TESSA SWEAZY WEBB First Line: This, then, is life ... Of such our dreams are made Last Line: Our dreams are vain, no doubt, but exquisite. | ||||||||
This, then, is life . . . of such our dreams are made, Eternal reaching out toward some strange land, To seize the fragile joys with eager hand -- The brief, elusive joys that had betrayed Our questing mind. Through dawnings unafraid, We seek the power that makes a grain of sand, Or whirls a star in space at its command, And find no answer, but are undismayed. We follow silhouettes: a shadow blur Upon a cloud; the quiet stabbed by thunder; A rainbow bridging space and lovelier Than any man-made citadel of wonder. And while we travel onward, bit by bit, Our dreams are vain, no doubt, but exquisite. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OLD THINGS by TESSA SWEAZY WEBB TO A MOUSE, ON TURNING HER UP IN HER NEST WITH THE PLOUGH by ROBERT BURNS COUNT THAT DAY LOST by MARY ANN EVANS THE PLACE OF REMEMBRANCE by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER IN THE VANGUARD by ALEXANDER ANDERSON ENOUGH by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN |
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