Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ADVERTISEMENT OF A LOST DAY, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lost! Lost! Lost! / a gem of countless price Last Line: What shall it answer there? Subject(s): Time | ||||||||
Lost! lost! lost! A gem of countless price, Cut from the living rock, And graved in Paradise. Set round with three times eight Large diamonds, clear and bright, And each with sixty smaller ones, All changeful as the light. Lost -- where the thoughtless throng In fashion's mazes wind, Where trilleth folly's song, Leaving a sting behind; Yet to my hand 'twas given A golden harp to buy, Such as the white-robed choir attune To deathless minstrelsy. Lost! lost! lost! I feel all search is vain; That gem of countless cost Can ne'er be mine again. I offer no reward, For till these heart-strings sever, I know that Heaven-intrusted gift Is reft away forever. But when the sea and land Like burning scroll have fled, I'll see it in His hand Who judgeth quick and dead; And when of scath and loss That man can ne'er repair, The dread inquiry meets my soul, What shall it answer there? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELEVEN EYES: FINAL SECTION by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: COME OCTOBER by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: HOME by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN SLOWLY: I FREQUENTLY SLOWLY WISH by LYN HEJINIAN ALL THE DIFFICULT HOURS AND MINUTES by JANE HIRSHFIELD A DAY IS VAST by JANE HIRSHFIELD FROM THIS HEIGHT by TONY HOAGLAND COLUMBUS [JANUARY, 1487] by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY |
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