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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LEISURE; SONNET, by AMY LOWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leisure, thou goddess of a bygone age Last Line: The dreaming lapse of slow, unmeasured time. Subject(s): Leisure | |||
Leisure, thou goddess of a bygone age, When hours were long and days sufficed to hold Wide-eyed delights and pleasures uncontrolled By shortening moments, when no gaunt presage Of undone duties, modern heritage, Haunted our happy minds; must thou withhold Thy presence from this over-busy world, And bearing silence with thee disengage Our twined fortunes? Deeps of unhewn woods Alone can cherish thee, alone possess Thy quiet, teeming vigor. This our crime: Not to have worshipped, marred by alien moods That sole condition of all loveliness, The dreaming lapse of slow, unmeasured time. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LEISURE by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 69. AUTUMN IDLENESS by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI SHIRK OR WORK? by GRACE BORDELON AGATE LEISURE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE PLAYGROUND AT PAOWNYC by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS I SMOKE MY PIPE by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY |
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