It comes about that the drifting of these curtains It comes about that the drifting of these curtains Is full of long motions; as the ponderous Is full of long motions; as the ponderous Deflations of distance; or as clouds Deflations of distance; or as clouds Inseparable from their afternoons; Inseparable from their afternoons; Or the changing of light, the dropping Or the changing of light, the dropping Of the silence, wide sleep and solitude Of the silence, wide sleep and solitude Of night, in which all motion Is beyond us, as the firmament, Up-rising and down-falling, bares The last largeness, bold to see. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 21. BREDON HILL by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN SONNET: TO SLEEP by JOHN KEATS FUZZY-WUZZY' (SOUDAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE) by RUDYARD KIPLING AFTER MUSIC by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY THE NOBLEMAN AND THE PENSIONER by GOTTLIEB KONRAD PFEFFEL DOWN BY THE SALLEY GARDENS by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |