Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SUPERSEDED, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As newer comers crowd the fore Last Line: Too, drop behind? Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Old Age; Work; Workers | ||||||||
I AS newer comers crowd the fore, We drop behind. - We who have laboured long and sore Times out of mind, And keen are yet, must not regret To drop behind. II Yet there are some of us who grieve To go behind; Staunch, strenuous souls who scarce believe Their fires declined, And know none spares, remembers, cares Who go behind. III 'Tis not that we have unforetold The drop behind; We feel the new must oust the old In every kind; But yet we think, must we, must we, Too, drop behind? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AFTER WORKING SIXTY HOURS AGAIN FOR WHAT REASON by HICOK. BOB DAY JOB AND NIGHT JOB by ANDREW HUDGINS BIXBY'S LANDING by ROBINSON JEFFERS ON BUILDING WITH STONE by ROBINSON JEFFERS LINES FROM A PLUTOCRATIC POETASTER TO A DITCH-DIGGER by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS IN CALIFORNIA: MORNING, EVENING, LATE JANUARY by DENISE LEVERTOV AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM' by THOMAS HARDY |
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