"O WORLD, O glorious world, good-by!" Time but to think it -- one wild cry Unuttered, a heart-wrung farewell To sky and wood and flashing stream, All gathered in a last swift gleam, As the crag crumbled, and he fell. But lo! the thing was wonderful! After the echoing crash, a lull: The great fir on the slope below Had spread its mighty mother-arm, And caught him, springing like a bow Of steel, and lowered him safe from harm. 'T was but an instant's dark and daze: Then, as he felt each limb was sound, And slowly from the swooning haze The dizzy trees stood still that whirled, And the familiar sky and ground, There grew with them across his brain A dull regret: "So, world, dark world, You are come back again!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THOUGHTS OF A TINY PIG by DAVID IGNATOW MATER IN EXTREMIS by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) AN EPITAPH UPON HUSBAND AND WIFE WHO DIED AND WERE BURIED by RICHARD CRASHAW THE HILL WIFE: HOUSE FEAR by ROBERT FROST THE LOVER AND THE BIRDS by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM ODE TO THE CONNECTICUT RIVER by JOSIAS LYNDON ARNOLD T.T. IN COMMENDATION OF THE AUTHOR HIS WORKE by RICHARD BARNFIELD |