Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TRANSITION, by VIRGINIA SPARKES First Line: What though a dream reached reality & paused Last Line: Will also pass, and longing, too, is brief. Subject(s): Change | ||||||||
What though a dream reached reality and paused, Shall I return to hum-drum things forevermore, And count my life as over, regard all beauty lost, Not clinging to the future, but what has gone before? Shall failure once, remove all taste for living And make of me an empty, lifeless shell, Or shall I seek again, the dreams that life is giving And call the present mood a breathing-spell? For now I know that steadfast is a word That cannot be applied to earthly things, And changeless is its synonym; absurd To build a hope on loveliness with wings, This being so, it must be true that grief Will also pass, and longing, too, is brief. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TWO WOMEN: OR A CCONVERSATION WITH SAHARA NILE by E. ETHELBERT MILLER THE SPACIOUS FIRMAMENT by JOHN ASHBERY WHEN THE WEATHER CHANGES TO WARM, THE BOYS DRIVE SHIRTLESS by MARY JO BANG AN ELEGY FOR THE PAST by MARVIN BELL TODAY'S NOT OPPOSITE DAY by CHARLES BERNSTEIN WHEN I WAS TWENTY-SIX by ROBERT BLY THE CHANGED WOMAN by LOUISE BOGAN |
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