Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CE QUI DURE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poet's Biography First Line: How cold and wan the present lowers Last Line: Then thou hast, love! That deathless heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Aging; Transience; Youth; Impermanence | ||||||||
HOW cold and wan the present lowers, O my true Love! around us twain; How little of the Past is ours! How changed the friends who yet remain. We cannot without envying view The eyes with twenty summers gay; For eyes 'neath which our childhood grew Have long since passed from earth away. Each hour still steals our youth: alas! No hour will e'er the theft restore: There's but one thing that will not pass, -- The heart I loved thee with of yore. That heart, where nothing new can light, Where old thoughts draw their cherished breath, -- It loves thee, dear, with all the might That Life can wield in strife with Death. If it of Death the conqueror be, If there's in Man some nobler part That wins him immortality, -- Then thou hast, Love! that deathless heart. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FROM THE SPANISH by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON CHAMBER MUSIC: 17 by JAMES JOYCE SOUTHERN GOTHIC by DONALD JUSTICE THE BEACH IN AUGUST by WELDON KEES THE MAN SPLITTING WOOD IN THE DAYBREAK by GALWAY KINNELL THE SEEKONK WOODS by GALWAY KINNELL ALONE by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME AU BORD DE DEAU by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME BEFORE THE APOLLO OF THE BELVEDERE by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME |
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