|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THIS IS ALL, by ALICE CARY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Trying, trying - always trying
Last Line: This is death.
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
First Line: Trying, trying - always trying
Last Line: This is death.
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
TRYING, trying -- always trying --
Falling down to save a fall;
Living by the dint of dying, --
This is all!
Giving, giving -- always giving --
Gathering just abroad to cast;
Dying by the dint of living
At the last!
Sighing, smiling -- smiling, sighing --
Sun in shade, and shade in sun;
Dying, living -- living, dying --
Both in one!
Hoping in our very fearing,
Striving hard against our strife;
Drifting in the stead of steering, --
This is life!
Seeming to believe in seeming,
Half disproving, to approve;
Knowing that we dream, in dreaming, --
This is love!
Being in our weakness stronger, --
Living where there is no breath;
Feeling harm can harm no longer, --
This is death.
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!
Other Poems of Interest...
A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT
FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT
TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT
CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY
NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND
A SPINSTER'S STINT by ALICE CARY