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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GOD BE WITH YOU, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, my highland lassie! When the year returns around Last Line: And the peaceful benediction of -- god be with you! Subject(s): God | |||
FAREWELL, my Highland lassie! when the year returns around, Be it Greece, or be it Norway, where my vagrant feet are found, I shall call to mind the place, I shall call to mind the day, The day that's gone for ever, and the glen that's far away, I shall mind me, be it Rhine or Rhone, Italian land or France, Of the laughings and the whispers, of the pipings and the dance; I shall see thy soft brown eyes dilate to wakening woman thought, And whiter still the white cheek grow to which the blush was brought; And oh, with mine commixing I thy breath of life shall feel, And clasp thy shyly passive hands in joyous Highland reel; I shall hear, and see, and feel, and in sequence sadly true, Shall repeat the bitter-sweet of the lingering last adieu; I shall seem as now to leave thee, with the kiss upon the brow, And the fervent benediction of -- God be with you! Ah me, my Highland lassie! though in winter drear and long Deep arose the heavy snows, and the stormy winds were strong, Though the rain, in summer's brightest, it were raining every day, With worldly comforts few and far, how glad were I to stay! I fall to sleep with dreams of life in some black bothie spent, Coarse poortith's ware thou changing there to gold of pure content, With barefoot lads and lassies round, and thee the cheery wife, In the braes of old Lochaber a laborious homely life; But I wake -- to leave thee, smiling, with the kiss upon the brow, And the peaceful benediction of -- God be with you! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MOUNTAIN IS STRIPPED by DAVID IGNATOW AS CLOSE AS BREATHING by MARK JARMAN UNHOLY SONNET 1 by MARK JARMAN UNHOLY SONNET 13 by MARK JARMAN BIRTH-DUES by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE SILENT SHEPHERDS by ROBINSON JEFFERS GOING TO THE HORSE FLATS by ROBINSON JEFFERS WITH WHOM IS NO VARIABLENESS, NEITHER SHADOW OF TURNING' by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH |
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