Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VICISSITUDE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poet's Biography First Line: All things around us preach of death; yet mirth Last Line: Earth is our pilgrimage, our home is heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Change; Death; Time; Dead, The | ||||||||
ALL things around us preach of Death; yet Mirth Swells the vain heart, darts from the careless eye, As if we were created ne'er to die, And had our everlasting home on earth! All things around us preach of death:the leaves Drop from the forestsperish the bright flowers Shortens the day's shorn sunlight, hours on hours And o'er bleak sterile fields the wild wind grieves. Yes! all things preach of deathwe are born to die: We are but waves along Time's ocean driven; Life is to us a brief probation given, To fit us for a dread Eternity. Hear ye that watch with Faith's unslumbering eye? Earth is our pilgrimage, our home is Heaven! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND THE RUSTIC LAD'S LAMENT IN THE TOWN by DAVID MACBETH MOIR |
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