The world, that all contains, is ever moving; The stars within their spheres forever turned; Nature, the queen of change, to change is loving, And form to matter new is still adjourned. Fortune, our fancy-god, to vary liketh; Place is not bound to things within it placed; The present time upon time passed striketh; With Phoebus' wand'ring course the earth is graced. The air still moves, and by its moving cleareth; The fire up ascends and planets feedeth; The water passeth on and all lets weareth; The earth stands still, yet change of changes breedeth. Her plants, which summer ripes, in winter fade; Each creature in unconstant mother lieth; Man made of earth, and for whom earth is made, Still dying lives and living ever dieth; Only, like fate, sweet Myra never varies, Yet in her eyes the doom of all change carries. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PORTRAIT OF ONE DEAD by CONRAD AIKEN MARRIAGE by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS CROTALUS by FRANCIS BRET HARTE THE LAST SUPPER by RAINER MARIA RILKE THE HOUSE ON THE HILL by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 31. HER GIFTS by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI |