Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SLIPPING AWAY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slipping away -- slipping away! Last Line: We are slipping away to the shores of peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Happiness; Peace; Seasons; World; Belief; Creed; Joy; Delight | ||||||||
Slipping away -- slipping away! Out of our brief year slips the May; And Winter lingers, and Summer flies; And Sorrow abideth, and Pleasure dies; And the days are short, and the nights are long; And little is right, and much is wrong. Slipping away is the Summer time; It has lost its rhythm and lilting rhyme -- For the grace goes out of the day so soon, And the tired head aches in the glare of noon, And the way seems long to the hills that lie Under the calm of the western sky. Slipping away are the friends whose worth Lent a glow to the sad old earth: One by one they slip from our sight; One by one their graves gleam white; Or we count them lost by the crueler death Of a trust betrayed, or a murdered faith. Slipping away are the hopes that made Bliss out of sorrow, and sun out of shade; Slipping away is our hold on life; And out of the struggle and wearing strife, From joys that diminish, and woes that increase, We are slipping away to the shores of Peace. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE STUDY OF HAPPINESS by KENNETH KOCH SO MUCH HAPPINESS by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE CROWD CONDITIONS by JOHN ASHBERY I WILL NOT BE CLAIMED by MARVIN BELL THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#21): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN'S HAPPINESS by MARVIN BELL |
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