HARK, the new year succeeds the dead, The bells make haste, the news is spread; And day by day "Farther away," "Farther away" tolls through my head. Here slinking Slyness rules the roost And brags and pimps, as he was used Before the day Now far away Saw him to's puny self reduced. And Quarrel with her hissing tongue And hen's eye gobbles gross along To snap that prey That marched away To save her carcass, better hung. Come, infant Hour, though much I fear Thy bright will shew more blackly clear How day by day Far fade away The heights which crowned a deadlier year. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HATRED by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT THE FIFTEEN ACRES by JAMES STEPHENS IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 7 by ALFRED TENNYSON SUNSET ACROSS THE LAKE by AUGUSTA M. BARNEY THE MASACRE AT SCIO by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT COWPER'S CONSOLATION by PHOEBE CARY DIONYSIA by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN |