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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. TO THE EVERLASTING NOW, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poet's Biography First Line: When all life has been rich in experience shall not death be rich Last Line: You fail to keep your first appointment. Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The | |||
WHEN all life has been rich in experience shall not Death be rich in experience also? Hold fast to the actual, and do not go outside good sense; Do not let your mind stray into a world of negations and impossibilities, or try to image some future time when it will be unable to image anything—for there is no sense in that. Do not wander too far into time at all, lest with the everlasting Now—the centre of all life and experience, and your own true lover— You fail to keep your first appointment. | 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 AS A MOULD FOR SOME FAIR FORM by EDWARD CARPENTER |
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