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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A NAME IN THE SAND, by HANNAH FLAGG GOULD Poet's Biography First Line: Alone I walked the ocean strand Last Line: For glory or for shame. | |||
ALONE I walked the ocean strand; A pearly shell was in my hand: I stooped and wrote upon the sand My name -- the year -- the day. As onward from the spot I passed, One lingering look behind I cast; A wave came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines away. And so, methought, 't will shortly be With every mark on earth from me: A wave of dark oblivion's sea Will sweep across the place Where I have trod the sandy shore Of time, and been, to be no more, Of me -- my day -- the name I bore, To leave nor track nor trace. And yet, with Him who counts the sands And holds the waters in his hands, I know a lasting record stands Inscribed against my name, Of all this mortal part has wrought, Of all this thinking soul has thought, And from these fleeting moments caught For glory or for shame. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BLIND BOY by HANNAH FLAGG GOULD THE OLD ELM OF NEWBURY by HANNAH FLAGG GOULD SONNET: INSCRIPTION FOR A PORTRAIT OF DANTE by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO HYMN TO ADVERSITY by THOMAS GRAY THE CLOUDED SOUL by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA THE IVORY CRADLE by AUGUSTE ANGELLIER BROADCAST by KATHARINE LEE BATES PSALM 26. JUDICA ME DEUS by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE |
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