Famous Going Forward Poems by Famous Poets

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Love We Must Part Now

...eager to be free, 
To kick down worlds, lash forests; you and I 
No longer hold them; we are husks, that see 
The grain going forward to a different use. 

There is regret. Always, there is regret.
But it is better that our lives unloose, 
As two tall ships, wind-mastered, wet with light, 
Break from an estuary with their courses set, 
And waving part, and waving drop from sight....Read more of this...
by Larkin, Philip


The Valley of the Shadow

...s older than the mothers who had borne them,
Being older in their wisdom, which is older than the earth; 
And they were going forward only farther into darkness, 
Unrelieved as were the blasting obligations of their birth; 
And among them, giving always what was not for their possession, 
There were maidens, very quiet, with no quiet in their eyes;
There were daughters of the silence in the Valley of the Shadow, 
Each an isolated item in the family sacrifice. 

There were cre...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

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