Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ROLL ON TIME, ROLL ON, by JULIA A. MOORE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roll on time, roll on, as it always has done Last Line: And I found it was the truth when I married. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Time | ||||||||
Roll on time, roll on, as it always has done, Since the time this world first begun; It can never change my love that I gave a dear man, Faithful friend, I gave my heart and hand. CHORUS: Roll on time, roll on, it can never turn back To the time of my maiden days -- To the time of my youth it can never turn back When I wandered with my love, bright and gay. I was happy then as a girl could ever be, And live on this earth here below -- I was happy as a lark and as busy as a bee, For in fashion or in style I did not go. My parents were poor and they could not dress me so, For they had not got the money to spare, And it may be better so, for I do not think fine clothes Make a person any better than they are. Some people are getting so they think a poor girl, Though she be bright and intelligent and gay, She must have nice clothes, or she is nothing in this world, If she is not dressed in style every day. Remember never to judge people by their clothes, For our brave, noble Washington said, "Honorable are rags, if a true heart they enclose," And I found it was the truth when I married. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELEVEN EYES: FINAL SECTION by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: COME OCTOBER by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: HOME by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN SLOWLY: I FREQUENTLY SLOWLY WISH by LYN HEJINIAN ALL THE DIFFICULT HOURS AND MINUTES by JANE HIRSHFIELD A DAY IS VAST by JANE HIRSHFIELD FROM THIS HEIGHT by TONY HOAGLAND ADVICE TO LITTLE CHILDREN by JULIA A. MOORE |
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