HOW it came to an end! The meeting afar from the crowd, And the love-looks and laughters unpenned, The parting when much was avowed, How it came to an end! It came to an end; Yes, the outgazing over the stream, With the sun on each serpentine bend, Or, later, the luring moon-gleam; It came to an end. It came to an end, The housebuilding, furnishing, planting, As if there were ages to spend In welcoming, feasting, and jaunting; It came to an end. It came to an end, That journey of one day a week: ('It always goes on,' said a friend, 'Just the same in bright weathers or bleak;') But it came to an end. 'How will come to an end This orbit so smoothly begun, Unless some convulsion attend?' I often said. 'What will be done When it comes to an end?' Well, it came to an end Quite silently - stopped without jerk; Better close no prevision could lend; Working out as One planned it should work Ere it came to an end. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONG: WOO'D AND MARRIED AND A' by JOANNA BAILLIE DIRGE FOR A SOLDIER [SEPTEMBER 1, 1862] by GEORGE HENRY BOKER THE CROCODILE, FR. ALICE IN WONDERLAND by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON THE EXEQUY [ON HIS WIFE] by HENRY KING (1592-1669) GENERAL WILLIAM BOOTH ENTERS INTO HEAVEN by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY |