Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GOING AND STAYING, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moving sun-shapes on the spray Last Line: Alike dissolving. Subject(s): Time | ||||||||
The moving sun-shapes on the spray, The sparkles where the brook was flowing, Pink faces, plightings, moonlit May, -- These were the things we wished would stay; But they were going. Seasons of blankness as of snow, The silent bleed of a world decaying, The moan of multitudes in woe, -- These were the things we wished would go; But they were staying. Then we looked closelier at Time, And saw his ghostly arms revolving To sweep off woeful things with prime, Things sinister with things sublime Alike dissolving. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELEVEN EYES: FINAL SECTION by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: COME OCTOBER by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: HOME by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN SLOWLY: I FREQUENTLY SLOWLY WISH by LYN HEJINIAN ALL THE DIFFICULT HOURS AND MINUTES by JANE HIRSHFIELD A DAY IS VAST by JANE HIRSHFIELD FROM THIS HEIGHT by TONY HOAGLAND AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM' by THOMAS HARDY |
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