Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LAST YEAR, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You thought, o love, you loved me then, I know Last Line: Our hearts their morning under last year's skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Past | ||||||||
I. You thought, O Love, you loved me then, I know; For that I bless you, now when Love is cold, Remembering how warm the tale you told, While winds of autumn fitfully did blow, And, by the sea's perpetual ebb and flow, We wandered on together to behold Noon's radiant splendor, or the sunset's gold, Or beauty of still nights where moons hung low. Your voice grew tender when you called my name; I heard that voice to-day, -- was it the same? -- The old-time music trembles in it yet. Your touch thrilled through me like a sudden flame And then Love's sweet and subtle madness came, And glad lips clung that now to kiss forget. II. You surely must remember, though to-day There is no spell to charm you in the past. So dear the dream was that it could not last: Too soon our pleasant skies were changed to gray; The sun turned from our barren land away, And all the leaves swept by us on the blast, And all our hopes to that wild wind were cast -- For dead Love's soul there is no place to pray. But still the old time lingers in our thought; In our regretful dreams the old suns rise, And from their shining, memory hath caught Some lingering glory of that glad surprise When Love rose on us like the sun, and brought Our hearts their morning under last year's skies. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FERGUS FALLING by GALWAY KINNELL A TIME PAST by DENISE LEVERTOV LAST THINGS by WILLIAM MEREDITH CHRISTMAS TREE by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS THIS MORNING, GOD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR A PAINTED FAN by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON |
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