Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TEMPERAMENT, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poet's Biography First Line: Where love and hate, honor and infamy Last Line: Back to that mystery when we go there. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life | ||||||||
Where love and hate, honor and infamy, Change and dissolve away, and cease to be; Where good and evil in effect are one In the long tale of years beneath the sun; Where like the face a man sees in a glass And turns from, character itself shall pass Out of the mystery whence we came we bring One thing that is the one immutable thing, Through which we fashion all that we do here, Which is the body of our hope and fear, The form of all we feel and all we know, The color of our weal and of our woe, And which alone, it may be, we shall bear Back to that mystery when we go there. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IKON: THE HARROWING OF HELL by DENISE LEVERTOV LEEK STREET by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR UNABLE TO FIND by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS 3 by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 1 by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 2 by HAYDEN CARRUTH WRITING IN THE AFTERLIFE by BILLY COLLINS |
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