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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE PROGRESS OF POETRY; A VARIATION, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth rambles on life's arid mount Last Line: And down he lays his weary bones. Subject(s): Aging | |||
A Variation YOUTH rambles on life's arid mount, And strikes the rock, and finds the vein, And brings the water from the fount, The fount which shall not flow again. The man mature with labour chops For the bright stream a channel grand, And sees not that the sacred drops Ran off and vanish'd out of hand. And then the old man totters nigh And feebly rakes among the stones. The mount is mute, the channel dry; And down he lays his weary bones. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AFTER THE GENTLE POET KOBAYASHI ISSA by ROBERT HASS MEMORY AS A HEARING AID by TONY HOAGLAND AMOROSA AND COMPANY by CONRAD AIKEN |
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