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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE LIFE OF MAN, by FRANCIS BEAUMONT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Like to the falling of a star
Last Line: The flight is past, and man forgot.
Variant Title(s): The Life Of Man
Subject(s): Life
First Line: Like to the falling of a star
Last Line: The flight is past, and man forgot.
Variant Title(s): The Life Of Man
Subject(s): Life
Like to the falling of a star,
Or as the flights of eagles are,
Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue,
Or silver drops of morning dew;
Or like the wind that chafes the flood,
Or bubbles which on water stood:
Even such is man, whose borrowed light
Is straight called in and paid to night:
The wind blows out, the bubble dies,
The spring intombed in autumn lies;
The dew's dried up, the star is shot,
The flight is past, and man forgot.
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