Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE UNFORGOTTEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poet's Biography First Line: Whene'er I see, hurrying through worldly ways Last Line: Or men could lose their dearness, being dead. Subject(s): Children; Death; Fairy Tales; Hearts; Past; Childhood; Dead, The | ||||||||
WHENE'ER I see, hurrying through worldly ways, Those who forget the friends they once have known Who seemed like very kinsmen of their own For fond affection, merged now in the haze That broods o'er the Eternal . . . the old days Faint too and far, like fairy tales outflown From rooms of childhood, -- I must inly moan That Time such numbing power upon us lays. As if the Past were not a playground, where The unforgotten mates slip to and fro In games whose dimness makes them doubly fair, The heart's best comradery, when all is said; As if less lovely were the Long Ago, Or men could lose their dearness, being dead. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND BLACK SHEEP by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON |
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