Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NOTHING NEW, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the dawn of spring till the year grows hoary Last Line: "murmurs -- ""rest." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Sea; Wind; World; Ocean | ||||||||
From the dawn of spring till the year grows hoary, Nothing is new that is done or said, The leaves are telling the same old story -- "Budding, bursting, dying, dead." And ever and always the wild bird's chorus Is "coming, building, flying, fled." Never the round earth roams or ranges Out of her circuit, so old, so old, And the smile o' the sun knows but these changes -- Beaming, burning, tender, cold, As Spring time softens or Winter estranges The mighty heart of this orb of gold. From our great sire's birth to the last morn's breaking There were tempest, sunshine, fruit and frost, And the sea was calm or the sea was shaking His mighty main like a lion crossed, And ever this cry the heart was making -- Longing, loving, losing, lost. Forever the wild wind wanders, crying, Southerly, easterly, north and west, And one worn song the fields are sighing, "Sowing, growing, harvest, rest," And the tired thought of the world, replying Like an echo to what is last and best, Murmurs -- "Rest." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HALL OF OCEAN LIFE by JOHN HOLLANDER JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS BOATS IN A FOG by ROBINSON JEFFERS CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS |
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