FOREVER and ever the reddening leaves Float to the sodden grasses, Forever and ever the shivering trees Cower and shriek to the chilling breeze That sweeps from the far-off sudden seas, To wither them as it passes. Forever and ever the low gray sky Stoops o'er the sorrowful earth; Forever and ever the steady rain Falls on bare bleak hill and barren plain, And flashes on roof and window-pane, And hisses upon the hearth. Forever and ever the weary thoughts Are tracing the selfsame track Forever and ever, to and fro, On the old unchanging road they go, Through dreaming and waking, through joy and woe, Calling the dead hours back. Forever and ever the tired heart Ponders o'er the evil done; Forever and ever through cloud and gleam, Tracing the course of the strong life-stream, And dreary and dull as the broken dream, Forever the rain rains on. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A LITTLE WHILE by SARA TEASDALE MOTLEY: THE GHOST by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE A MUSICAL by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 5. ON LOVE OF PRAISE by MARK AKENSIDE THE SPIRIT OF THE TIMES by ALEXANDER ANDERSON SONG OF THE FLOUR-MILL by EDWIN ARNOLD |