Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LIGHT OF DAYS GONE BY, by ALICE CARY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some comfort when all else is night Last Line: In the light of days gone by. Subject(s): Past | ||||||||
SOME comfort when all else is night, About his fortune plays, Who sets his dark to-days in the light Of the sunnier yesterdays. In memory of joy that's been Something of joy is, still; Where no dew is, we may dabble in A dream of the dew at will. All with the dusty city's throng Walled round, I mused to-day Of flowery sheets lying white along The pleasant grass of the way. Under the hedge by the brawling brook I heard the woodpecker's tap. And the drunken trills of the blackbirds shook The sassafras leaves in my lap. I thought of the rainy morning air Dropping down through the pine, Of furrows fresh from the shining share, And smelling sweeter than wine. Of the soft, thick moss, and how it grew With silver beads impearled, In the well that we used to think ran through To the other side of the world. I thought of the old barn set about With its stacks of sweet, dry hay; Of the swallows flying in and out Through the gables, steep and gray; Thought of the golden hum of the bees, Of the cocks with their heads so high, Making it morn in the tops of the trees Before it was morn in the sky. And of the home, of the dear old home, With its brown and rose-bound wall, Where we fancied death could never come -- I thought of it more than of all. Each childish play-ground memory claims, Telling me here, and thus, We called to the echoes by their names, Till we made them answer us. Thank God, when other power decays, And other pleasures die, We still may set our dark to-days In the light of days gone by. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FERGUS FALLING by GALWAY KINNELL A TIME PAST by DENISE LEVERTOV LAST THINGS by WILLIAM MEREDITH CHRISTMAS TREE by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS THIS MORNING, GOD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR A SPINSTER'S STINT by ALICE CARY |
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