Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN A CARRIAGE, UPON THE BANKS OF THE RHINE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amid this dance of objects sadness steals Last Line: And in fit measure cheers autumnal days. Subject(s): Germany; Germans | ||||||||
AMID this dance of objects sadness steals O'er the defrauded heart -- while sweeping by, As in a fit of Thespian jollity, Beneath her vine-leaf crown the green Earth reels: Backward, in rapid evanescence, wheels The venerable pageantry of Time, Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime, And what the Dell unwillingly reveals Of lurking cloistral arch, through trees espied Near the bright River's edge. Yet why repine? To muse, to creep, to halt at will, to gaze -- Such sweet wayfaring -- of life's spring the pride, Her summer's faithful joy -- 'that' still is mine, And in fit measure cheers autumnal days. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A GERMAN REQUIEM by JAMES FENTON THE BARON'S LAST BANQUET by ALBERT GORTON GREENE THE BOOK OF YOLEK by ANTHONY HECHT MEN AND BOYS by KARL THEODORE KORNER BINGEN ON THE RHINE by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON KATHE KOLLWITZ by MURIEL RUKEYSER TO GERMANY by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY A JEWISH FAMILY; IN A SMALL VALLEY OPPOSITE ST. GOAR by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |
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