“Only--but this is rare-- When a beloved hand is laid in ours, When, jaded with the rush and glare Of the interminable hours, Our eyes can in another's eyes read clear, When our world-deafen'd ear Is by the tones of a loved voice caress'd-- A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast, And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again. The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain, And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know. A man becomes aware of his life's flow, And hears its winding murmur; and he sees The meadows where it glides, the sun, the breeze.”
Quote by Matthew Arnold
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Dover Beach and Other Poems
This volume includes the classic poem 'Dover Beach,' known for its evocative imagery and reflective tone, along with additional poems that showcase the author's poetic style and thematic concerns. more
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