Poetry Explorer

Classic and Contemporary Poetry

TO W.P.: 2 by GEORGE SANTAYANA

Poet Analysis

First Line: WITH YOU A PART OF ME HATH PASSED AWAY
Last Line: WHAT I KEEP OF YOU, OR YOU ROB FROM ME.
Subject(s): DEATH; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; POTTER, WARWICK (1872-1893); DEAD, THE;
With you a part of me hath passed away;
For in the peopled forest of my mind
A tree made leafless by this wintry wind
Shall never don again its green array.
Chapel and fireside, country road and bay,
Have something of their friendliness resigned;
Another, if I would, I could not find,
And I am grown much older in a day.
But yet I treasure in my memory
Your gift of charity, and young heart's ease,
And the dear honour of your amity;
For these once mine, my life is rich with these.
And I scarce know which part may greater be, --
What I keep of you, or you rob from me.




Home: PoetryExplorer.net