 | Michael Harrison, Christopher Stuart-Clark - Poetry - 1989 - 216 pages
...mountain And the salmon sing in the street, Til love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about...all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime: 'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time. 'In the burrows of the Nightmare Where Justice... | |
 | Judith Viorst - Self-Help - 2010 - 452 pages
...mountain And the salmon sing in the street. I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry. And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about...Flower of the Ages, And the first love of the world." Against this blissful vision Auden starkly summons up the chilling and inescapable inroads of time,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...When there was peace, he was for peace; when there was war, he went. 601 'As I Walked Out One Evening' À 0 Ā ۈ Rower of the Ages, And the first love of the world. 602 When we do evil, We and our victims Are equally... | |
 | Brian L. Silver - Science - 2000 - 553 pages
...nature, space and time are woven together, and matter and energy are one. Absolute Space and Time? But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime: "O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer time." — WH Auden, "As I Walked Out One Evening"... | |
 | Richard R. Bozorth - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 362 pages
...endless, for "calling / Infinity a number does not make it one," any more than telling the beloved he is "the Flower of the Ages / And the first love of the world" (EA 227) makes it true. Kassner's ideas about the Incarnation inform this poem but do not conclude... | |
 | Anthony Hecht - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 334 pages
...give her Arpege!" As for the concluding vaunt of Auden's lover regarding his beloved, and calling her "The Flower of the Ages / And the first love of the world," we may recall the claim of Yeats, in his poem "The Tower" in regard to Helen of Troy, that "Helen has... | |
 | Mandy Newman, June Newman - Self-Help - 2005 - 244 pages
...mountain And the salmon sing in the street, Til love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about...all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime: 'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time. 'In the burrows of the Nightmare Where Justice... | |
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I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky. The years shall run like rabbits For in my arms I hold The Flower of the Ages And the first love of the world. 