"Going and Staying"
I
The moving sun-shapes on the spray,
The sparkles where the brook was flowing,
Pink faces, plightings, moonlit May,
These were the things we wished would stay;
But they were going.
II
Seasons of blankness as of snow,
The silent bleed of a world decaying,
The moon of multitudes in woe,
These were the things we wished would go;
But they were staying.
III
Then we looked closlier at Time,
And saw his ghostly arms revolving
To sweep off woeful things with prime,
Things sinister with things sublime
Alike dissolving.
The formatting kinda got messed up, but the lines are in the right place.
I just like that he uses 'closlier' in III.
Thomas Hardy, by the way.
It's the first stanza really...it's like recalling that one happy time that maybe wasn't as happy as you remember it. For instance, there were bugs by the brook and the women were being, well, women about it. How annoying! But, oh, happy day it was!
I am too skeptical. It was a perfect day; the end. =)
posted by Lindsey Charlton @ 8:44 PM
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I found the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry at Borders for 5 bucks. Other than that, check out Edgar Allan Poe, DH Lawrence, Robert Frost...but anthologys are fun because you can open up to any random page and there is a new poem every time!
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