Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TIME TABLE, by FANNY DE GROOT HASTINGS First Line: Leave, arrive - leave, arrive Last Line: The rest belong to eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life | ||||||||
Leave, arrive -- leave, arrive; Hours and minutes -- nothing alive; Names of places neatly printed, Nothing of parting and meeting hinted; Nothing of trees woven in screens By the spinning wheels of hurtling machines; Nothing of mountains cloven in twain To make a path for an all-steel train; Nothing of stars keeping their place, Or moon with her white ironical face -- Illusively still, never out-run, What cares she for seconds spun? Nothing of strangers side by side, Sharing a brief, fantastic ride; Nothing of melting ice at the mouth Of a frozen river flowing south; Nothing of miles of frosted downs, Nothing of bright kaleidoscoped towns; Nothing of all the transient scene Visibly fluid, rushing between The stiff, plush seats of a crowded car And the fixity of the evening star. Leave, arrive -- arrive, leave; Time to rejoice, time to grieve, But there is no space on a time table sheet To record the length of a full heartbeat. The west-bound special leaves at three; The rest belong to eternity. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IKON: THE HARROWING OF HELL by DENISE LEVERTOV LEEK STREET by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR UNABLE TO FIND by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS 3 by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 1 by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 2 by HAYDEN CARRUTH WRITING IN THE AFTERLIFE by BILLY COLLINS SURFACES AND MASKS; 6 by CLARENCE MAJOR |
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