Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AT PARTING, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poet's Biography First Line: It was sad weather when you went away Last Line: And you coming home, home through the hours of sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Women And War; World War I; First World War | ||||||||
IT was sad weather when you went away, Wind, and the rain was raining every day. And all night long I heard in lonesome sleep The water running under the bows of the ship, All the dark night and till the dawning grey. At Salonika it is golden weather. Go light of heart, O child, light as a feather, Valiant and full of laughter, free as air. God is at Salonikahere and there God and my heart are keeping watch together. But O when you come back, though skies should weep, The water running under the bows of the ship Shall in my dreams make music exquisite And all my happy sleep be drenched with it, And you coming home, home through the hours of sleep. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...D'ANNUNZIO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1915: THE TRENCHES by CONRAD AIKEN TO OUR PRESIDENT by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE HORSES by KATHARINE LEE BATES CHILDREN OF THE WAR by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE U-BOAT CREWS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE RED CROSS NURSE by KATHARINE LEE BATES WAR PROFITS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE UNCHANGEABLE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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