Once I reached Cold Mountain I stayed for thirty years recently visiting family and friends most had left for the Yellow Springs slowly fading like a dying candle or surging past like a flowing stream today facing my solitary shadow suddenly both eyes filled with tears | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AFFIRMATION by LOUIS UNTERMEYER THE CANONIZATION by JOHN DONNE SONNET: TO SLEEP by JOHN KEATS THE GREENWOOD SHRIFT; GEORGE III AND A DYING WOMAN IN WINDSOR FOREST by ROBERT SOUTHEY THE KINGS OF THE EAST by KATHARINE LEE BATES AN EVENING PRAYER by C. MAUDE BATTERSBY LOVE IS A STAR by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE AN EPITAPH ON SIR JOHN PROWDE, LIEUTENANT TO CHARLES MORGAN by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) |