W. D. Snodgrass Quote

It was the nature of the thing:
No moon outlives its leaving night,
No sun its day. And I went on Rich in the loss of all I sing To the threshold of waking light,
To larksong and the live, gray dawn.
So night by night, my life has gone.


Orpheus (1959)


It was the nature of the thing: No moon outlives its leaving night, No sun its day. And I went on Rich in the loss of all I sing To the threshold of...

It was the nature of the thing: No moon outlives its leaving night, No sun its day. And I went on Rich in the loss of all I sing To the threshold of...

It was the nature of the thing: No moon outlives its leaving night, No sun its day. And I went on Rich in the loss of all I sing To the threshold of...

It was the nature of the thing: No moon outlives its leaving night, No sun its day. And I went on Rich in the loss of all I sing To the threshold of...