Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 19, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poet's Biography First Line: Life on the wane: yes, sudden that news breaks Last Line: Love will have new glad secrets yet to teach. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Time | ||||||||
Life on the wane: yes, sudden that news breaks. And yet I would 'twere suddenly and less soon; Since no forewarning makes loss opportune. And now I watch that slow advance Time makes: Watch as, while silent flow spreads broad the lakes Mid the land levels of a smooth lagoon, One waiting, pitiful, on a tidal dune, Aware too long before it overtakes. Ah! there's so quick a joy in hues and sun, And will my eyes see dim? Will vacant sense Forget the lark, the surges on the beach? Shall I step wearily and wish 'twere done? Well, if it be love will not too go hence, Love will have new glad secrets yet to teach. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELEVEN EYES: FINAL SECTION by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: COME OCTOBER by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: HOME by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN SLOWLY: I FREQUENTLY SLOWLY WISH by LYN HEJINIAN ALL THE DIFFICULT HOURS AND MINUTES by JANE HIRSHFIELD A DAY IS VAST by JANE HIRSHFIELD FROM THIS HEIGHT by TONY HOAGLAND CIRCE by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER |
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