Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A QUERY, by ANONYMOUS First Line: Oh the wonder of our life Last Line: "all ther heaven and all the hell? / ah, we know not: god can tell" Subject(s): Faith;hope; Belief;creed;optimism | ||||||||
Oh the wonder of our life, Pain and pleasure, rest and strife, Mystery of mysteries, Set twixt two eternities! Lo, the moments come and go, E'en as sparks, and vanish so; Flash from darkness into light, Quick as thought are quenched in night. With an import grand and strange Are they fraught in ceaseless change As they post away; each one Stands eternally alone. The scene more fair than words can say, I gaze upon and go my way; I turn, another glance to claim -- Something is changed, 't is not the same. The purple flush on yonder fell, The tinkle of that cattle-bell, Came, and have never come before, Go, and are gone forevermore. Our life is held as with a vice, We cannot do the same thing twice; Once we may, but not again; Only memories remain. What if memories vanish too, And the past be lost to view; Is it all for nought that I Heard and saw and hurried by? Where are childhood's merry hours, Bright with sunshine, crossed with showers? Are they dead, and can they never Come again to life forever? No -- 't is false, I surely trow; Though awhile they vanish now; Every passion, deed, and thought Was not born to come to nought! Will the past then come again, Rest and pleasure, strife and pain, All the heaven and all the hell? Ah, we know not: God can tell. | 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 EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT by DEREK MAHON TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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