My science-friend, my noblest woman-friend, (Now buried in an English grave''"and this a memory-leaf for her dear sake,) Ended our talk''""The sum, concluding all we know of old or modern learning, intuitions deep, "Of all Geologies''"Histories''"of all Astronomy''"of Evolution, Metaphysics all, "Is, that we all are onward, onward, speeding slowly, surely bettering, "Life, life an endless march, an endless army, (no halt, but it is duly over,) "The world, the race, the soul''"in space and time the universes, "All bound as is befitting each''"all surely going somewhere." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SUICIDE by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON THE HUMAN ABSTRACT, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE A RUNNABLE STAG by JOHN DAVIDSON COLUMBIAN ODE by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE MILKING-MAID by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 49. WILLOWWOOD (1) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI |