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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OLD AGE'S LAMBENT PEAKS, by WALT WHITMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The touch of flame - the illuminating fire - the loftiest look at last
Last Line: The lights indeed from them -- old age's lambent peaks.
Subject(s): Old Age
First Line: The touch of flame - the illuminating fire - the loftiest look at last
Last Line: The lights indeed from them -- old age's lambent peaks.
Subject(s): Old Age
The touch of flame -- the illuminating fire -- the loftiest
look at last,
O'er city, passion, sea -- o'er prairie, mountain, wood --
the earth itself;
The airy, different, changing hues of all, in falling twilight,
Objects and groups, bearings, faces, reminiscences;
The calmer sight -- the golden setting, clear and broad:
So much i' the atmosphere, the points of view, the
situations whence we scan,
Bro't out by them alone -- so much (perhaps the best) unreck'd before;
The lights indeed from them -- old age's lambent peaks.
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