EVERYTHING passes and vanishes; Everything leaves its trace; And often you see in a footstep What you could not see in a face. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WHEN MALINDY SINGS by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR TO R. B. by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS TO JOHN KEATS; SONNET by AMY LOWELL CASSANDRA by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON EMPTYING ASHES by MAXWELL ANDERSON LESBIA'S COMPLAINT AGAINST THYRISIS HIS INCONSTANCY; A SONNET by PHILIP AYRES THE CHILD AN' THE MOWERS by WILLIAM BARNES FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: DAY OF SURPASSING BEAUTY by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES WAR AUTOBIOGRAPHY; WRITTEN IN ILLNESS by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |