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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LEISURE; SONNET, by AMY LOWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Leisure, thou goddess of a bygone age
Last Line: The dreaming lapse of slow, unmeasured time.
Subject(s): Leisure
First Line: Leisure, thou goddess of a bygone age
Last Line: The dreaming lapse of slow, unmeasured time.
Subject(s): Leisure
Leisure, thou goddess of a bygone age,
When hours were long and days sufficed to hold
Wide-eyed delights and pleasures uncontrolled
By shortening moments, when no gaunt presage
Of undone duties, modern heritage,
Haunted our happy minds; must thou withhold
Thy presence from this over-busy world,
And bearing silence with thee disengage
Our twined fortunes? Deeps of unhewn woods
Alone can cherish thee, alone possess
Thy quiet, teeming vigor. This our crime:
Not to have worshipped, marred by alien moods
That sole condition of all loveliness,
The dreaming lapse of slow, unmeasured time.
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