Before this loved one Was that one and that one A family And history And ghost s adversity Whose pleasing name Was neighbourly shame. Before this last one Was much to be done, Frontiers to cross As clothes grew worse And coins to pass In a cheaper house Before this last one Before this loved one. Face that the sun Is supple on May stir but here Is no new year; This gratitude for gifts is less Than the old loss; Touching is shaking hands On mortgaged lands; And smiling of This gracious greeting ''Good day. Good luck" Is no real meeting But instinctive look A backward love. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EASTER HYMN by GEORGE SANTAYANA AT DOVER CLIFFS, JULY 20, 1787 by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES TO THOMAS MOORE (1) by GEORGE GORDON BYRON THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SERIES: 2. JONATHAN TO JOHN by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A HEALTH by EDWARD COATE PINKNEY |