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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FACES AT A FIRE Dazzled with watching how the swift fire fled Along the dribbling roof, I turned my head; When lo, upraised beneath the lighted cloud The illumed unconscious faces of the crowd An old grey face in lovely bloom upturned, The ancient rapture and the dream returned A crafty face wondering simply up That dying face near the communion cup The experienced face, now venturous and rash, The scheming eyes hither and thither flash That common trivial face made up of needs, Now pale and recent from triumphal deeds The hungry tramp with indolent gloating stare, The beggar in glory and released from care. A mother slowly burning with bare breast, Yet her consuming child close to her prest That prosperous citizen in anguish dire, Beseeching heaven from purgatorial fire Wonderful souls by sudden flame betrayed, I saw; then through the darkness went afraid THE LILY I Dreamed that after wandering long I came To a dark garden with frail souls for flowers; And saw the gentle lady we call Death Pace to and fro; above each bloom she bent, Then passed: a slumbrous sky above her rolled Cloud upon cloud: and from those human flowers A tragic odour like emotion rose. I followed in her steps, and now she touched Some poppy that had been a dreamer frail, Or rose that was a passionate Eastern queen. But on a sudden I implored her hand, And should have fallen: from a lily near What sweet and paining odour to my brain Darted, with delicate, unhappy smell Of trouble old and gladness far away I knew more surely than from any face, More certainly remembered than at words, And slowly swooning said, Tis she 'tis she Then looking to that lady cold, whose face No sternness and no pity had, I said, Lady, this flower but a little while, O but a little whi...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217029131 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217029132 |
| Weight | 0.28 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.19 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 78 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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