Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NAY, BUT I FANCY SOMEHOW, YEAR BY YEAR, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the lit windows beckon o'er the lea Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Love – Marital; Time; Hope | ||||||||
Nay, but I fancy somehow, year by year The hard road waxing easier to my feet; Nay, but I fancy as the seasons fleet I shall grow ever dearer to my dear. Hope is so strong that it has conquered fear; Love follows, crowned and glad for fear's defeat. Down the long future I behold us, sweet, Pass, and grow ever dearer and more near; Pass and go onward into that mild land Where the blond harvests slumber all the noon, And the pale sky bends downward to the sea; Pass, and go forward, ever hand in hand, Till all the plain be quickened with the moon, And the lit windows beckon o'er the lea. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOPE IS NOT FOR THE WISE by ROBINSON JEFFERS SONNET by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON SPRING FLOODS by MAURICE BARING SONNET: 9. HOPE by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES HIGH HOPES by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE A GOOD PLAY by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON |
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