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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS, by JULIAN MOSES DRACHMAN First Line: We are not alone under that canopy Last Line: As from us aging, strong fresh life has sprung? | |||
We are not alone under that canopy Star-jewelled, wherein our vows were spoken once, For, as our pulses dim and all we see Moves slowlier and gapes like any dunce, We are not alone; not we alone grow old, Heavy and crumbling, but our space-washed crag Trembles and slows; the sun is turning cold; A million universes lapse and lag . . . At length when earth and ocean shall be one And air and space all one -- one tepid level Of neuter formlessness, and God and devil Are blent and fused to one and that one none, Will not the world's life then turn new and young, As from us aging, strong fresh life has sprung? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE AGING COLOSSUS by JULIAN MOSES DRACHMAN YOU TOO? by JULIAN MOSES DRACHMAN THE HERETIC: 4. HUMILITY by LOUIS UNTERMEYER POOR MAILIE'S ELEGY by ROBERT BURNS LAVENDER'S BLUE (1) by MOTHER GOOSE THE GIRL OF ALL PERIODS; AN IDYLL by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE THE WANING MOON by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY |
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