Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GONE, BUT HERE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poet's Biography First Line: She was here, and she is gone Last Line: Of life be done? Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Music & Musicians; Parting; Male-female Relations | ||||||||
SHE was here, and she is gone, Yet there is singing; Round this heart of crumbling stone Music still is clinging As birds round cliffs where tempests groan All day are winging. How can music still go onon And she gone? She is here no more but can Her song be gone? Stars that waned when dawn began Still burn purely on, Silence sings when every song of man Is done. How shall her song be mute although her span Of life be done? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MISERY AND SPLENDOR by ROBERT HASS THE APPLE TREES AT OLEMA by ROBERT HASS DOUBLE SONNET by ANTHONY HECHT CONDITIONS XXI by ESSEX HEMPHILL CALIFORNIA SORROW: MOUNTAIN VIEW by MARY KINZIE SUPERBIA: A TRIUMPH WITH NO TRAIN by MARY KINZIE COUNSEL TO UNREASON by LEONIE ADAMS |
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