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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE VOICE, by RUSTICUS [PSEUD.] First Line: Through mists of tears I saw the vanished past Last Line: "try exercise, old sport, and simpler diet" Alternate Author Name(s): Rusticus Subject(s): History;memory; Historians | |||
Through mists of tears I saw the vanished Past, A sad, gray land. Low-scudding clouds were raining; And pallid phantoms wandered there complaining. "We are Regrets," they moaned. "Thy tale, amassed Through long, unhappy years, thou man that wast Once blithe and young but now art overborne By gaunt Remorse and agonized Selfscorn." Then, sobbing, faded to the lowering vast. I cried for human pity. Came there none Across the murk and mist and rain-swept marsh That never knew the wholesome light of sun, The slough of Failure, Grief, and black Disquiet, Until there croaked a voice, discordant, harsh, "Try exercise, old sport, and simpler diet." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BRITISH COUNTRYSIDE IN PICTURES by JAMES MCMICHAEL THE HISTORY OF MY LIFE by JOHN ASHBERY INITIAL CONDITIONS by MARVIN BELL THE DREAM SONGS: 290 by JOHN BERRYMAN THE EROTICS OF HISTORY by EAVAN BOLAND THEM AND US by LUCILLE CLIFTON TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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