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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IMMORTALITY: 1, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poet's Biography
First Line: So when the old delight is born anew
Last Line: And at full tide forgotten in the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Immortality
First Line: So when the old delight is born anew
Last Line: And at full tide forgotten in the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Immortality
So when the old delight is born anew,
And God re-animates the early bliss,
Seems it not all as one first trembling kiss
Ere soul knew soul with whom she has to do?
O nights how desolate, O days how few,
O death in life, if life be this, be this!
O weigh'd alone as one shall win or miss
The faint eternity which shines therethro'!
Lo, all that age is as a speck of sand
Lost on the long beach where the tides are free,
And no man metes it in his hollow hand
Nor cares to ponder it, how small it be;
At ebb it lies forgotten on the land
And at full tide forgotten in the sea.
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