Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, POETRY, by IDA WILSON ZEALEAR


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POETRY, by                    
First Line: Poetry is the faltering depiction
Last Line: Of the soul's soft stirring.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets


Poetry is the faltering depiction
(Painted by inadequate word pictures)
Of fleeting fancies that tantalize our dreams --
Those eerie will-o'-the-wisps
That beg for expression --
That beckon through a half-glimpsed pane of perfection
To vistas illumed by a goal achieved.
That haunt our hearts with half-remembered halos
Of saintly stars on planes agone;
That brush pearl-scented wings prophetic
To fan our souls to vision's flame --
And plunge us to despair, chain-laden,
By the futility of our mortal tongue.
Poetry is the slim mist-shadow
Of the soul's soft stirring.





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