SO long you wandered on the dusky plain, Where flit the shadows with their endless cry, You reach the shore where all the world goes by, You leave the strife, the slavery, the pain; But we, but we, the mortals that remain In vain stretch hands; for Charon sullenly Drives us afar, we may not come anigh Till that last mystic obolus we gain. But you are happy in the quiet place, And with the learned lovers of old days, And with your love, you wander evermore In the dim woods, and drink forgetfulness Of us your friends, a weary crowd that press About the gate, or labor at the oar. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE PLAYERS ASK FOR A BLESSING ON THE PSALTERIES AND ON THEMSELVES by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS FLOWERS WITHOUT FRUIT by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT; AN ODE ATTEMPTED IN ENGLISH SAPPHIC by ISAAC WATTS THAT GENERAL UTILITY RAG, BY OUR OWN IRVING BERLIN by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS A STIRRUP-CUP by DOUGLAS AINSLIE |