Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN THE EVENING; IN MEMORIAM FREDERICI TREEVES, 1853-1923, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the evening, when the world knew he was dead Last Line: "enough. You have returned. And all is well." | ||||||||
IN the evening, when the world knew he was dead, He lay amid the dust and hoar Of ages; and to a spirit attending said: "This chalky bed? -- I surely seem to have been here before?" "O yes. You have been here. You knew the place, Substanced as you, long ere your call: And if you cared to do so you might trace In this gray space Your being, and the being of men all." Thereto said he: "Then why was I called away? I knew no trouble or discontent: Why did I not prolong my ancient stay Herein for aye?" The spirit shook its head. "None knows: you went. "And though, perhaps, Time did not sign to you The need to go, dream-vision sees How Aesculapius' phantom hither flew, With Galen's, too, And his of Cos -- plague-proof Hippocrates, "And beckoned you forth, whose skill had read as theirs Maybe, had Science chanced to spell In their day, modern modes to stem despairs That mankind bears!. . . Enough. You have returned. And all is well." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MEN WHO MARCH AWAY' (SONG OF THE SOLDIERS) by THOMAS HARDY A BROKEN APPOINTMENT by THOMAS HARDY A CHRISTMAS GHOST-STORY; CHRISTMAS-EVE 1899 by THOMAS HARDY A THOUGHT IN TWO MOODS by THOMAS HARDY A THUNDERSTORM IN TOWN by THOMAS HARDY A TRAMPWOMAN'S TRAGEDY by THOMAS HARDY A WIFE IN LONDON by THOMAS HARDY ACCORDING TO THE MIGHTY WORKING by THOMAS HARDY |
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