Archive for May, 2008

Going and Staying by Thomas Hardy

Posted on May 14, 2008. Filed under: Poems |

   I
 
The moving sun-shapes on the spray,
The sparkles where the brook was flowing,
Pink faces, plightings, moonlit May,
These were the things we wished would stay;
        But they were going.
 
                         II
 
Seasons of blankness as of snow,
The silent bleed of a world decaying,
The moan of multitudes in woe,
These were the things we wished would go;
        But they were [...]