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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TIME'S REVERSALS; A DAUGHTER'S PARADOX, by ALICE MEYNELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To his devoted heart Last Line: Leaning a fading brow on your unfaded hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Love - Age Differences; Time | |||
TO his devoted heart Who, young, had loved his ageing mate for life, In late lone years Time gave the elder's part, Time gave the bridegroom's boast, Time gave a younger wife. A wilder prank and plot Time soon will promise, threaten, offering me Impossible things that Nature suffers not -- A daughter's riper mind, a child's seniority. Oh, by my filial tears Mourned all too young, Father! On this my head Time yet will force at last the longer years, Claiming some strange respect for me from you, the dead. Nay, nay! Too new to know Time's conjuring is, too great to understand. Memory has not died; it leaves me so -- Leaning a fading brow on your unfaded hand. | 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 I AM THE WAY' by ALICE MEYNELL |
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