Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ORGAN SONGS: TO MY AGING FRIENDS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is no winter night comes down Last Line: We are coming fast to you! Subject(s): Aging; Death; Friendship; God; Dead, The | ||||||||
IT is no winter night comes down Upon our hearts, dear friends of old; But a May evening, softly brown, Whose wind is rather cold. We are not, like yon sad-eyed West, Phantoms that brood o'er Time's dust-hoard, We are like yon Moonin mourning drest, But gazing on her lord. Come nearer to the hearth, sweet friends, Draw nigher, closer, hand and chair; Ours is a love that never ends, For God is dearest there! We will not talk about the past, We will not ponder ancient pain; Those are but deep foundations cast For peaks of soaring gain! We, waiting Dead, will warm our bones At our poor smouldering earthly fire; And talk of wide-eyed living ones Who have what we desire. O Living, ye know what is death We, by and by, shall know it too! Humble, with bated, hoping breath, We are coming fast to you! | 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 LOST AND FOUND by GEORGE MACDONALD THAT HOLY THING by GEORGE MACDONALD THE BABY, FR. AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND by GEORGE MACDONALD |
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