Round each day's task before the set of sun: That, you may comprehend. (How, hour by hour The striving stars march on from power to power!) Even though, amid primroses, should one or one Beckon you, tempting with a golden dower, Round each day's task before the set of sun, The striving stars march on from power to power. Then roseate glowing when all days are done, See where the primrose clouds shall high embower Your each-day's task, tower on ivory tower! Round each day's task before the set of sun, That you may comprehend how hour by hour The striving stars march on from power to power. And progress builds your city great, But you leer down at Louvre and mart And we must wonder why you wait. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: EMILY SPARKS by EDGAR LEE MASTERS AFTER TU FU (THEY SAY YOU'RE STAYING IN A MOUNTAIN TEMPLE) by MARVIN BELL I COULD TAKE by HAYDEN CARRUTH MERELY STATEMENT by AMY LOWELL SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: GODWIN JAMES by EDGAR LEE MASTERS FACADE: 24. AN OLD WOMAN LAMENTS IN SPRINGTIME by EDITH SITWELL |