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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DIARISTS, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: They catalogue their minutes: now, now, now
Last Line: The sudden mood of truth that gave them birth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Diaries
First Line: They catalogue their minutes: now, now, now
Last Line: The sudden mood of truth that gave them birth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Diaries
THEY catalogue their minutes: Now, now, now,
Is Actual, amid the fugitive;
Take ink and pen (they say) for that is how
We snare this flying life, and make it live.
So to their little pictures, and they sieve
Their happinesses: fields turned by the plough,
The afterglow that summer sunsets give,
The razor concave of a great ship's bow.
O gallant instinct, folly for men's mirth!
Type cannot burn and sparkle on the page.
No glittering ink can make this written word
Shine clear enough to speak the noble rage
And instancy of life. All sonnets blurred
The sudden mood of truth that gave them birth.
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