Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE OLD QUESTION, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE First Line: Ah! Whither gone, my friend of many years? Last Line: That separates the worlds and hides thy face. | ||||||||
AH! whither gone, my friend of many years? I ask it of the silence, with the thought Of what thou wert and what thy hands have wrought, And only silence answers in my ears: Whither the life that beautiful appears, And true, with kindly ministrations fraught Thy life that, passing when we dreamed it not, Has left us to our memories and our tears? If fairer now the light that round thee streams, Forget us not: thy steps we cannot trace; And yet we wait, as if to catch some gleams Of what lies yonder in that holy place, So thin the impenetrable curtain seems That separates the worlds and hides thy face. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A POET'S CENTENARY by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE A SONG OF BATTLE by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE A VOICE by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE AD MUSAM by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE ALL SOUL'S EVE by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE AN APOSTOLIC MAN by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE AN EAGLE-SPIRIT by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE AN OLD SAW by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE CONSCIENCE by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE COOPERATION by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE |
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