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They change to a high new house, He, she, all of them—aye, Clocks and carpets and chairs On the lawn all day, And brightest things that are theirs. Ah, no; the years, the years; Down their carved names the rain-drop ploughs.

What renders the music of the poem so moving is the drag in the voice, as if there were sinkers on many of the lines. Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me, Saying that now you are not as you were When you had changed from the one who was all to me, But as at first, when our day was fair.

Can it be you that I hear? Let me view you, then, Standing as when I drew near to the town Where you would wait for me: yes, as I knew you then, Even to the original air-blue gown! Or is it only the breeze in its listlessness Traveling across the wet mead to me here, You being ever dissolved to wan wistlessness, Heard no more again far or near? Thus I; faltering forward, Leaves around me falling, Wind oozing thin through the thorn from norward, And the woman calling.

The strangely jerky parenthetical hiccups in the middle all build into an ending that never fails to choke me. Thank you for subscribing! Your subscription is confirmed for news related to biggest developments in health, medicine and wellbeing.

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The impact of the rise in parental age on kids and parents. Tips to make your kids more assertive. Does putting cabbage relieve swelling and stop breastfeeding? The truth is, there are lots of equally iconic Dickinson poems , so consider this a stand-in for them all. One of the defining works of the Harlem Renaissance, by its greatest poet.

With On the Road , the most enduring piece of literature from the mythologized Beat Generation, and of the two, the better one. So iconic, it was a Google Doodle. I mean, have you seen Interstellar? Or Dangerous Minds or Independence Day? Or Citizen Kane? One of those poems passed hand to hand between undergraduates who will grow up to become writers. All else aside, the fact that it starts with hating poetry has made it a favorite among schoolchildren of all ages. According to someone in the Literary Hub office who would know, this poem is all over sports stadiums and locker rooms.

Serena Williams is into it , which is proof enough for me. Tyger, tyger, burning bright. Blake famously wrote music to go along with his poems—the originals have been lost, but this verse has been widely interpreted by musicians as well as repeated to many sleepy children.