Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WIDOW TO HER HOUR-GLASS, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, friend, I'll turn thee up again Last Line: "I'll turn thee up again." Subject(s): Hourglasses; Widows & Widowers | ||||||||
COME, friend, I'll turn thee up again: Companion of the lonely hour! Spring thirty times hath fed with rain And clothed with leaves my humble bower, Since thou hast stood In frame of wood, On chest or window by my side: At every birth still thou wert near, Still spoke thine admonitions clear, -- And, when my husband died. I've often watch'd thy streaming sand, And seen the growing mountain rise, And often found life's hopes to stand On props as weak in wisdom's eyes: Its conic crown Still sliding down, Again heap'd up, then down again; The sand above more hollow grew, Like days and years still filtering through, And mingling joy and pain. While thus I spin and sometimes sing, (For now and then my heart will glow,) Thou measurest Time's expanding wing; By thee the noontide hour I know: Though silent thou, Still shalt thou flow, And jog along thy destined way: But when I glean the sultry fields, When earth her yellow harvest yields, Thou gett'st a holiday. Steady as truth, on either end Thy daily task performing well, Thou 'rt meditation's constant friend, And strik'st the heart without a bell: Come, lovely May: Thy lengthen'd day Shall gild once more my native plain; Curl inward here, sweet woodbine flower; "Companion of the lonely hour, I'll turn thee up again." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A WIDOW SPEAKS TO THE AURORA'S OF A DECEMBER NIGHT by NORMAN DUBIE NEW AGE AT AIRPORT MESA by NORMAN DUBIE POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 5; FOR R.P. BLACKMUR by NORMAN DUBIE THE WIDOW OF THE BEAST OF INGOLSTADT by NORMAN DUBIE DOMESDAY BOOK: WIDOW FORTELKA by EDGAR LEE MASTERS WIDOW IN A STONE HOUSE by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER GETTING TO KNOW YOU by RUTH STONE ADDRESS TO HIS NATIVE VALE by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD |
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