The Forsaken
The Forsaken
Original Text
The Conquerors and Other Poems (London: Macmillan, 1935): 22.
1These we may help no more. They have slipped from our hands
2 Like the shining sands
3Of the castles we builded in childhood. The wind and the tide
4 Will not he denied --
5Not though a King cry "Halt!" to the hurrying waters,
7These we must leave for the kites, in the secret strife
8 Of a quarrelling life.
9Spent is their golden laughter. Haggard and poor
10 They shall pass by our door --
11And it may be that out of their breaking, some music is wrung,
12But never for us has the strange blind wanderer sung.
Notes
6] Nereid: in the Greek tradition, any of the sea nymphs, one of the fifty daughters of the sea god Nereus. Back to Line
Publication Start Year
1935
Publication Notes
The Conquerors and Other Poems
RPO poem Editors
Cameron La Follette
Data Entry: Sharine Leung
RPO Edition
2012
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