Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it all will your heart survive. Be forever dead in Eurydice-more gladly arise into the seamless life proclaimed in your song. Here, in the realm of decline, among momentary days, be the crystal cup that shattered even as it rang. Be-and yet know the great void where all things begin, the infinite source of your own most intense vibration, so that, this once, you may give it your perfect assent. To all that is used-up, and to all the muffled and dumb creatures in the world's full reserve, the unsayable sums, joyfully add yourself, and cancel the count. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE VANTAGE POINT by ROBERT FROST THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 11. THE LOVE-LETTER by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI EPITAPH FOR LINCOLN by WALT WHITMAN ON FEATHER BEDS by JOHN ARMSTRONG THE CRIME OF THE AGES; 1861 by AUGUSTA COOPER BRISTOL AT THE FIREMEN'S EXHIBITION by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB A MOUNTAIN GATEWAY by BLISS CARMAN |