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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TWO MYSTICS, by ANONYMOUS First Line: I have read in a worn old volume Last Line: "and that fairy so loved and so loving,- / who can it be, dearest, but thee?" Subject(s): Love;mysticism | |||
I HAVE read in a worn old volume Of a mystic grave and gray Who saw in every flower And wind an elfin fay. And it filled the quaint old fellow With awe and anxious dread Of these creatures so quiet and dovelike Around him and overhead. So I too am surely a mystic, Though I'm neither grave nor gray, Nor believe in goblins and spectres Who frighten one's wits away. Yet I do believe in a fairy Who, though absent, still seems with me, And that fairy so loved and so loving, -- Who can it be, dearest, but thee? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DIAMOND PERSONA by NORMAN DUBIE OUTWARD BOUND by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN by ROBERT BROWNING ECHO AND SILENCE by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES THE BALLAD OF JUDAS ISCARIOT by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN KUBLA KHAN by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
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