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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GROWTH, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: I watched the glory of her childhood change
Last Line: But kinder than before.
Subject(s): Growth
First Line: I watched the glory of her childhood change
Last Line: But kinder than before.
Subject(s): Growth
I WATCHED the glory of her childhood change,
Half-sorrowful to find the child I knew,
(Loved long ago in lily-time)
Become a maid, mysterious and strange,
With fair, pure eyes -- dear eyes, but not the eyes I knew
Of old, in the olden time!
Till on my doubting soul the ancient good
Of her dear childhood in the new disguise
Dawned, and I hastened to adore
The glory of her waking maidenhood,
And found the old tenderness within her deepening eyes,
But kinder than before.
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