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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FACES AND THE FORMS OF YORE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
Last Line: The mothers of our mothers' show
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Past; Memory
Last Line: The mothers of our mothers' show
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Past; Memory
The faces and the forms of yore,
Again recall, again recast;
Let your fine fingers raise once more
The curtains of the quiet past;
And there, beside the English fires
That sung and sparkled long ago,
The sires of your departed sires.
The mothers of our mothers' show.
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