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A certain ambiguity of rhythm is one of the beauties of a poem

Anne Ridler

In every generation
The young acquire an image of their elders
Tranquil, assured, with every day mapped out
From punctual meals to reading by the fire.
Threescore and ten is not like that at all
We find on getting there.

Anne Ridler

Immortality
Is not mere repetition:
It is a blue flash,
A kingfisher vision
It is a new-feathered
And procreant love,
Seen where the halcyon
Nests on the waves.

Anne Ridler

Nothing is lost.
We are too sad to know that, or too blind;
Only in visited moments do we understand:
It is not that the dead return –
They are about us always, though unguessed.

Anne Ridler

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born
It compels humility: what we began
Is now its own.

Anne Ridler

To mark time is not to move:
Only the unkempt hours drip from the clock
Or pull at the cord coiled in its groove,
The marker moveless, and the change illusion.

Anne Ridler

Anne Ridler

Born: July 30, 1912

Died: October 15, 2001 (aged 89)

Bio: Anne Barbara Ridler was a British poet, and Faber and Faber editor, selecting the Faber A Little Book of Modern Verse with T. S. Eliot. Her Collected Poems were published in 1994.

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