Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ECHOES, by MARY ELLEN TANNER First Line: Standing by the gateway Last Line: Of the vanished years. Subject(s): Echoes | ||||||||
Standing by the gateway In the evening glow, Listening to the footfalls Of the long ago. Not so long in days and years If you count it so; Count the time in heart throbs, Then you come to know. Mother's little toddlers Walked at just a year. Bounding steps of schoolboys -- Listen! do you hear? Romping home at close of day No other sound so dear, Gallant lads so trim and tall Stepping quite the beau. Merry, laughing, teasing ways, Mother loves them so; Life is calling from afar -- Eagerly they go. Now they walk in places far Firmly without fear, Leading busy earnest lives. -- Very quiet here, Listening to the echoes Of the vanished years. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE HOURS; FOR INGRID ERHARDT, 1951-1971 by NORMAN DUBIE ECHO by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE THE PRINCESS; A MEDLEY by ALFRED TENNYSON THE MOUNTAIN ECHO by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH TO AN ECHO by PAULINE GARNER CURRAN ECHO by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE TO THE ECHO; IN A CLEAR NIGHT UPON ASTROP WALKS by ANNE FINCH BURIAL OF MOSES by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER |
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