Famous Go Past Poems by Famous Poets

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All Woods Must Fail

...in the shadowed land
Despair not! For though dark they stand,
All woods there be must end at last,
And see the open sun go past:
The setting sun, the rising sun,
The day's end, or the day begun.
For east or west all woods must fail....Read more of this...
by Tolkien, J R R


Market days

...y from this endless spread of bright burning colors in front of us,
till mother pulled us back from the booths,

had us go past wagonloads of fruit and grain
to skirt the crowding square,

then head up that narrow, dusty side street
to see our aunt Kastune;
later, we'd still be talking away, when she hurried us back
past the tiny houses shoved up next to each other, along the river
and down to the mill, where with the last
of the rye-flour sacks stacked up in the wagon
and hi...Read more of this...
by Mekas, Jonas

Restlessness

...f flotsam until my soul is tired or satisfied. 

I will catch in my eyes’ quick net 
The faces of all the women as they go past, 
Bend over them with my soul, to cherish the wet
Cheeks and wet hair a moment, saying: “Is it you?” 
Looking earnestly under the dark umbrellas, held fast
Against the wind; and if, where the lamplight blew 
Its rainy swill about us, she answered me 
With a laugh and a merry wildness that it was she
Who was seeking me, and had found me at last to fre...Read more of this...
by Lawrence, D. H.

Sleep Spaces

...e murderer's
the town policeman's light from the street lamp and the ragman's lantern
There is you.
In the night trains go past and boats
and the fantasy of countries where it's daytime. The last breaths
of twilight and the first shivers of dawn.
There is you.
A piano tune, a shout.
A door slams. A clock.
And not only beings and things and physical sounds.
But also me chasing myself or endlessly going beyond me.
There is you the sacrifice, you that I'm waiting for.
Sometimes ...Read more of this...
by Desnos, Robert

The House Of Dust: Part 04: 06: Cinema

...Now they are blown by the wind . . . we stand and listen
To the sliding of grain upon timeless grain
And feel our lives go past like a whisper of pain.
Have I not seen you, have we not met before
Here on this sun-and-sea-wrecked shore?
You shade your sea-gray eyes with a sunlit hand
And peer at me . . . far sea-gulls, in your eyes,
Flash in the sun, go down . . . I hear slow sand,
And shrink to nothing beneath blue brilliant skies . . .

 * * * * *

The music ends. The screen...Read more of this...
by Aiken, Conrad


The Line-Gang

...n words whether beaten out or spoken
Will run as hushed as when they were a thought
But in no hush they string it: they go past
With shouts afar to pull the cable taught,
To hold it hard until they make it fast,
To ease away--they have it. With a laugh,
An oath of towns that set the wild at naught
They bring the telephone and telegraph....Read more of this...
by Frost, Robert

The Old Huntsman

...ears are gone down, 
Discover what I’ve lost. 

I never broke 
Out of my blundering self into the world,
But let it all go past me, like a man 
Half asleep in a land that’s full of wars. 

What a grand thing ’twould be if I could go 
Back to the kennels now and take my hounds 
For summer exercise; be riding out
With forty couple when the quiet skies 
Are streaked with sunrise, and the silly birds 
Grown hoarse with singing; cobwebs on the furze 
Up on the hill, and all the co...Read more of this...
by Sassoon, Siegfried

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