Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO THE COMTESSE DE MOLANDE, ABOUT TO MARRY THE DUC DE LUXEMBOURG, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say ye that years roll on and ne'er return? Last Line: "and take the highest seat below the crown'd." Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives | ||||||||
Say ye that years roll on and ne'er return? Say ye the Sun who leaves them all behind, Their great creator, can not bring one back With all his force, tho' he draw worlds around? Witness me, little streams that meet before My happy dwelling; witness Africo And Mensola! that ye have seen at once Twenty roll back, twenty as swift and bright As are your swiftest and your brightest waves, When the tall cypress o'er the Doccia Hurls from his inmost boughs the latent snow. Go, and go happy, light of my past days, Consoler of my present! thou whom Fate Alone could sever from me! One step higher Must yet be mounted, high as was the last: Friendship with faltering accent says "Depart, And take the highest seat below the crown'd." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A BLESSING FOR A WEDDING by JANE HIRSHFIELD A SUITE FOR MARRIAGE by DAVID IGNATOW ADVICE TO HER SON ON MARRIAGE by MARY BARBER THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW by SABINE BARING-GOULD KISSING AGAIN by DORIANNE LAUX A TIME PAST by DENISE LEVERTOV A FIESOLAN IDYL by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR |
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