I VEX me not with brooding on the years That were ere I drew breath: why should I then Distrust the darkness that may fall again When life is done ? Perchance in other spheres - Dead planets - I once tasted mortal tears, And walked as now amid a throng of men, Pondering things that lay beyond my ken, Questioning death, and solacing my fears. Ofttimes indeed strange sense have I of this, Vague memories that hold me with a spell, Touches of unseen lips upon my brow, Breathing some incommunicable bliss In years foregone, O Soul, was all not well ? Still lovelier life awaits thee. Fear not thou! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MY HAPPINESS by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON CORPORATE ENTITY by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH AT THE MERMAID TAVERN (APRIL 10, 1613) by EDGAR LEE MASTERS BONNYBELL: THE GRAY SPHEX by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |