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A Song Of Eternity In Time
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Once, at night, in the manor wood
My Love and I long silent stood,
Amazed that any heavens could
Decree to part us, bitterly repining.
My Love, in aimless love and grief,
Reached forth and drew aside a leaf
That just above us played the thief
And stole our starlight that for us was shining.
A star that had remarked her pain
Shone straightway down that leafy lane,
And wrought his image, mirror-plain,
Within a tear that on her lash hung gleaming.
"Thus Time," I cried, "is but a tear
Some one hath wept 'twixt hope and fear,
Yet in his little lucent sphere
Our star of stars, Eternity, is beaming."
Sidney Lanier
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Kevin Straw
(9/14/2009 5:53:00 AM) |
This is prosodically a beautiful poem, but I am not sure how 'eternity' assuages the grief of real parting. Is 'the starlight' better than 'our starlight'?
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Albert Ahearn
(9/14/2009 2:43:00 AM) |
This is a poem that demonstrates to me how subordinate contemporary poetry has become.
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O Anna Niemus
(9/14/2008 4:53:00 AM) |
Sidney, wherever you are reincarnated (or perhaps no longer by body encumbered)
God bless you for the beauty you spread.
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