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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OLD LOVES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poet's Biography First Line: Old loves, once so alive, but now long dead! Last Line: Give them remembrance for a coronal. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Memory; Time; Dead, The | |||
OLD loves, once so alive, but now long dead! They told the same sweet lies, they often said The same fond, foolish things, -- lip answered lip With the same thrill, for Love's strong mastership. Time is an empty Temple of Delight Where once Love's way was festal, day and night. And yet the newest pair of lovers smile, Laughing and loving for their little while, Without a tremor, and their look as gay As those now dim, or these of yesterday. Eternally they flicker to and fro To Fancy's eye; for ever come and go So light, so bright, so fragile and so sad, The faded ones whom all the ages had.... Old loves, dead loves, and dust upon them all! Give them remembrance for a coronal. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY |
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