Let this good-bye of ours -- this last good-bye -- Be still and splendid like a forest tree; Or like the hands of Silence holding up The blue and burning corners of the sea. Let there be one grand look within our eyes, Built of the wonderment of these past years; Too vast a thing of beauty to be lost In quivering lips and burning floods of tears. Back to the chaos of the world, we go Shining with one sweet secret no one knows; Crutches of dreams to help us on our path, From snow to tender petaling of the rose. So in places we lift high our heads, That none may find within our calm, clear eyes The secret that two travelers have returned, And cast away their key to Paradise. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WITH CHAOS IN EACH KISS by TIMOTHY LIU THE POET AND THE BABY by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE IMMORTALITY OF LOVE by ROBERT SOUTHEY TO A SHADE by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS MILLS OF DESTINY by EVA K. ANGLESBURG SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 13 by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 23 by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) CLIO, NINE ECLOGUES IN HONOUR OF NINE VIRTUES: 5. OF TEMPERANCE by WILLIAM BASSE |