Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOODS ON THE MOSELLE, by FORD MADOX FORD Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet! Sweet! Sweet! Sings the bird upon the bough Last Line: That our songs sing now. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Change; Mourning; Bereavement | ||||||||
"SWEET! Sweet! Sweet!" sings the bird upon the bough. But though he may call for sweetness We have other things to witness, Not all cherry-pie and neatness, Now. "Mourn! Mourn! Mourn!" cry the owls among the vines. But it's neither death nor fleetness That have any utter fitness, Not a final joy or sorrow, As we press out wines. "Change! Slow change!" ticks the church clock through the snow. And somehow 'twixt winter's dying And spring apple-blossoms flying And the summer hops a-tying... It's now haughty and now humble Change! Slow change! And rough-and-tumble. Down to-day and up to-morrow That our songs sing now. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HUNGERFIELD by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE MOURNER by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN HECUBA MOURNS by MARILYN NELSON THERE IS NO GOD BUT by AGHA SHAHID ALI IF I COULD MOURN LIKE A MOURNING DOVE by FRANK BIDART |
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