|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 34. MUTABILITY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: From low to high doth dissolution climb
Last Line: Or the unimaginable touch of time.
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Transience; Impermanence
First Line: From low to high doth dissolution climb
Last Line: Or the unimaginable touch of time.
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Transience; Impermanence
FROM low to high doth dissolution climb,
And sink from high to low, along a scale
Of awful notes, whose concord shall not fail;
A musical but melancholy chime,
Which they can hear who meddle not with crime,
Nor avarice, nor over-anxious care.
Truth fails not; but her outward forms that bear
The longest date do melt like frosty rime,
That in the morning whitened hill and plain
And is no more; drop like the tower sublime
Of yesterday, which royally did wear
His crown of weeds, but could not even sustain
Some casual shout that broke the silent air,
Or the unimaginable touch of Time.
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!
Other Poems of Interest...
FROM THE SPANISH by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON
CHAMBER MUSIC: 17 by JAMES JOYCE
SOUTHERN GOTHIC by DONALD JUSTICE
THE BEACH IN AUGUST by WELDON KEES
THE MAN SPLITTING WOOD IN THE DAYBREAK by GALWAY KINNELL
THE SEEKONK WOODS by GALWAY KINNELL
A JEWISH FAMILY; IN A SMALL VALLEY OPPOSITE ST. GOAR by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH