greykit.poetry — #memory

• 1918 [carl-sandburg] Grass
  Cornhuskers

  Austerlitz, Waterloo, Gettysburg, Ypres and Verdun are shovelled under and the grass gets to work — until the passengers no longer know what place this is. I am the grass. Let me work.

  #free-verse#war#memory#1910s
• 1910 [rudyard-kipling] The Way Through the Woods
  Rewards and Fairies

  A road the forest swallowed — and the ghosts you can almost hear still riding it.

  #nature#england#memory#1910s
• 1896 [a-e-housman] Into my heart an air that kills
  A Shropshire Lad

  The blue remembered hills of the land of lost content, shining plain from far away — and the flat admission that closes it: I cannot come again.

  #lyric#exile#memory#1890s
• 1862 [christina-rossetti] Remember
  Goblin Market and Other Poems

  Rossetti urges her beloved to remember her after death, then revises the plea — better he should forget and smile than remember and be sad.

  #sonnet#memory#death#grief#1860s
• 1847 [alfred-lord-tennyson] Tears, Idle Tears
  The Princess

  Tears that rise from no known grief but from looking at happy autumn fields and thinking of the days that are no more — fresh as first beams, sad as the last, deep as first love, wild with all regret.

  #lyric#grief#memory#1840s
• 1807 [william-wordsworth] I wandered lonely as a Cloud
  Poems, in Two Volumes

  A solitary walk past a host of daffodils on a lake shore becomes, in memory, a source of joy that refreshes the poet on his couch in vacant or pensive mood.

  #lyric#nature#memory#solitude#1800s
• 1807 [william-wordsworth] Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
  Poems, in Two Volumes

  Wordsworth's great ode on the fading of the visionary gleam — the sense, felt in childhood, of a celestial radiance on all things, and the poet's mature consolation in memory, sympathy, and "the soothing thoughts that spring / Out of human suffering.

  #ode#childhood#memory#immortality#Romantic#1800s
• 1798 [william-wordsworth] Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798
  Lyrical Ballads

  Revisiting the Wye valley after five years, Wordsworth traces how nature's forms have sustained him in absence and shaped his moral being, closing with a prayer for his sister Dorothy.

  #blank-verse#meditation#nature#memory#1790s
• 1609 [william-shakespeare] Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
  Shakespeare’s Sonnets

  Memory convened like a court: the speaker summons up remembrance of things past, re-weeps friends long dead and pays old griefs over again as if they had never been settled — until one thought of a dear friend cancels the whole account.

  #sonnet#grief#memory#1600s