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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHANGE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes, when after spirited debate
Last Line: Then, in the deathless days before she died.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
First Line: Sometimes, when after spirited debate
Last Line: Then, in the deathless days before she died.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
SOMETIMES, when after spirited debate
Of letters or affairs, in thought I go
Smiling unto myself, and all aglow
With some immediate purpose, and elate
As if my little, trivial scheme were great,
And what I would so were already so:
Suddenly I think of her that died, and know,
Whatever friendly or unfriendly fate
Befall me in my hope or in my pride,
It is all nothing but a mockery,
And nothing can be what it used to be,
When I could bid my happy life abide,
And build on earth for perpetuity,
Then, in the deathless days before she died.
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