MEMORY
by: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
(1836-1906)
- Y mind lets
go a thousand things,
- Like dates of wars and deaths of kings,
- And yet recalls the very hour--
- 'T was noon by yonder village tower,
- And on the last blue noon in May--
- The wind came briskly up this way,
- Crisping the brook beside the road;
- Then, pausing here, set down its load
- Of pine-scents, and shook listlessly
- Two petals from that wild-rose tree.
"Memory" is reprinted
from THE SISTERS' TRAGEDY WITH OTHER POEMS,LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1891. |
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