Rabbi Ben Ezra by Robert Browning - Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in His h
The poem begins with a call to “grow old along with me” and expresses the belief that the best part of life is yet to come. It suggests that the purpose of life lies in its culmination, with the later stages being the fulfillment of the initial design. Thespeakeremphasizes the idea t...
I will assume there are many others that are in the same situation I am–not privileged with the opportunity to experience “Grow old with me”. Due to my husband’s death 14 years ago, the quote I will share is for fellow travelers on a different journey. This quote from Dietrich...
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in His hand Who saith, "A Whole I planned,Youth shows but half; . . . 鈥擱obert Browning, "Rabbi Ben Ezra"1 In his poem "Rabbi B... MJ Lzberg,F Cecchin - 《...
The poem is full of echoes of the Old Testament, fused with the spirit of modern Christianity and modern thinking. It is touched here and there with bits of beauty from Oriental landscape. The long, even swell of the lines carries one along with no sense of the roughness so common in B...
Such lovers old are I and she: So it always was, so shall ever be! It is a poem written out of his very heart. And then, the scenery? It is not of our country at all. It is of many lands, but, above all, it is vividly Italian. There is no more minute and subtly-felt des...
Such cause of the world’s woe,—how she, old stories call This creature, Helen’s self, never saw Troy at all. Jove had his fancy-fit, must needs take empty air, Fashion her likeness forth, and set the phantom there I’ the midst for sport, to try conclusions with the blind And...
it continues to resonate with readers today. Whether you're a fan of Victorian poetry, interested in the history and culture of Rome, or simply looking for a thought-provoking and engaging literary work, this poem has something to offer. So why not take a journey through time and space, ...
Perhaps my favorite from this collection—though I’d be hard pressed to commit to a favorite, as each of these prose poems have stuck with me since reading the collection (three times, to date—it’s that good!)—is “When Sparky Comes Back,” a ghost story of a poem, about the na...
This sonnet is little more than a copy of the following poem which some two and a half centuries earlier. Love not me for comely grace, For my pleasing eye or face, Nor for any outward part, No, nor for my constant heart, -- For those may fail, or turn to ill, So thou ...