Mild Is The Parting Year Poem by Walter Savage Landor

Mild Is The Parting Year

Rating: 3.3


Mild is the parting year, and sweet
The odour of the falling spray;
Life passes on more rudely fleet,
And balmless is its closing day.

I wait its close, I court its gloom,
But mourn that never must there fall
Or on my breast or on my tomb
The tear that would have soothed it all.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Susan Williams 02 January 2018

The tear that would have soothed it all. - - - That was a well-turned line and really entices the reader into thinking more about the poem.

2 0 Reply
Kumarmani Mahakul 02 January 2018

This poem is tender, sweet and very beautifully penned.10

1 0 Reply
Edward Kofi Louis 02 January 2019

The falling spray! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

1 0 Reply
Amar Agarwala 02 January 2017

i am reading Walter Landor for the first time and must say that the poem is lovely. Small and full of meaning.

1 0 Reply
Edward Kofi Louis 02 January 2017

Welcome to the new year! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

1 0 Reply
Sylvia Frances Chan 02 January 2021

Truly mildest is my parting year despite entering Covid-19 part 2 till the 19th January 2021 (next) . I thank God for this mildest year-change and this beautiful Classic poem Of The Day by Walter Savage Landor, this poem conjures magic! !

0 0 Reply
Sylvia Frances Chan 02 January 2021

Happy New Year to all my friends on Poem Hunter Poem Site.5 Stars

1 0 Reply
Dr Antony Theodore 02 January 2020

I wait its close, I court its gloom, But mourn that never must there fall Or on my breast or on my tomb The tear that would have soothed it all. A beautiful poem

0 0 Reply
Mahtab Bangalee 02 January 2020

beautiful reflective poem penned- on my breast or on my tomb The tear that would have soothed it all. ///

0 0 Reply
Kevin Patrick 02 January 2019

a toast to the past, and drink to the future.

0 0 Reply
READ THIS POEM IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Close
Error Success