I FEEL a poem in my heart to-night, A still thing growing, -- As if the darkness to the outer light A song were owing: A something strangely vague, and sweet, and sad, Fair, fragile, slender; Not tearful, yet not daring to be glad, And oh, so tender! It may not reach the outer world at all, Despite its growing; Upon a poem-bud such cold winds fall To blight its blowing. But, oh, whatever may the thing betide, Free life or fetter, My heart, just to have held it till it died, Will be the better! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPOT SIX DIFFERENCES by MARVIN BELL PERSPECTIVE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM by AMY LOWELL SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: EUGENE CARMAN by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JAMES GARBER by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE LEAVES FIRST by CARL PHILLIPS |