Mark Van Doren

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Mark Van Doren Away Poems

  • 1.
    How far is it to peace, the piper sighed,
    The solitary, sweating as he paused.
    Asphalt the noon; the ravens, terrified,
    Fled carrion thunder that percussion caused.
    ...
  • 2.
    The deepest dream is of mad governors,
    Down, down we feel it, till the very crust
    Of the world cracks, and where there was no dust,
    Atoms of ruin rise. Confusion stirs,
    ...
  • 3.
    Listen, The wind is still,
    And far away in the night --
    See! The uplands fill
    With a running light.
    ...
Total 3 Away Poems by Mark Van Doren

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Sonnet Xvi. To Kosciusko
 by John Keats

Good Kosciusko, thy great name alone
Is a full harvest whence to reap high feeling;
It comes upon us like the glorious pealing
Of the wide spheres -- an everlasting tone.
And now it tells me, that in worlds unknown,
The names of heroes, burst from clouds concealing,
And changed to harmonies, for ever stealing
Through cloudless blue, and round each silver throne.
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