Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ARRIVED, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS


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First Line: Life has overtaken me and here I am
Last Line: But life has followed and I find it good.
Subject(s): Life


Life has overtaken me and here I am;
I fled before it as with courser's speed.
My fancy pictured all that Life could give,
I counted not that it brings only meed.

Questing ever questing first, the while my goal
Eluded me and rather seemed a doom.
My youth sought beauty and I ranged at will,
For every vagrant wayside bore a bloom.

Plodding only plodding next, through life toward death,
Yet Life pursued along that mystic road.
I prayed for surcease for I had not learned
That duty was my guerdon, not by load.

Life has overtaken me and here I am;
A mystic ebb and flow has borne me on;
Soft breezes wafted and dark tempests tossed.
A dead calm smote me, yet the port is won.

Life has overtaken me and here I am;
I shunned and fled but it pursued.
My fancy blindly led a weary way,
But Life has followed and I find it good.





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