"O WORLD, O glorious world, good-by!" Time but to think it -- one wild cry Unuttered, a heart-wrung farewell To sky and wood and flashing stream, All gathered in a last swift gleam, As the crag crumbled, and he fell. But lo! the thing was wonderful! After the echoing crash, a lull: The great fir on the slope below Had spread its mighty mother-arm, And caught him, springing like a bow Of steel, and lowered him safe from harm. 'T was but an instant's dark and daze: Then, as he felt each limb was sound, And slowly from the swooning haze The dizzy trees stood still that whirled, And the familiar sky and ground, There grew with them across his brain A dull regret: "So, world, dark world, You are come back again!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LAST LEAF by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1884 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 38. THE MORROW'S MESSAGE by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI SCUM O' THE EARTH' by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER WHY DRINK WINE by HENRY ALDRICH THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 43. FAREWELL TO JULIET (5) by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT DENNER'S OLD WOMAN by VINCENT BOURNE |