I am looking for a poem I read a while ago..?

Question

I know it is about the immortality of writers/words/books..but I can't remember the exact title and the search engines aren't working with me...so if anyone remembers this poem from..probably high school...please tell me..thanks

Answer 1

i hope this is may be the one you are looking for

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Her Immortality
By Thomas Hardy


Upon a noon I pilgrimed through
A pasture, mile by mile,
Unto the place where I last saw
My dead Love’s living smile.

And sorrowing I lay me down
Upon the heated sod:
It seemed as if my body pressed
The very ground she trod.

I lay, and thought; and in a trance
She came and stood me by--
The same, even to the marvellous ray
That used to light her eye.

“You draw me, and I come to you,
My faithful one,” she said,
In voice that had the moving tone
It bore in maidenhead.

She said: “‘Tis seven years since I died:
Few now remember me;
My husband clasps another bride;
My children mothers she.

My brethren, sisters, and my friends
Care not to meet my sprite:
Who prized me most I did not know
Till I passed down from sight.”

I said: “My days are lonely here;
I need thy smile alway:
I’ll use this night my ball or blade,
And join thee ere the day.”

A tremor stirred her tender lips,
Which parted to dissuade:
“That cannot be, O friend,” she cried;
“Think, I am but a Shade!

“A Shade but in its mindful ones
Has immortality;
By living, me you keep alive,
By dying you slay me.

“In you resides my single power
Of sweet continuance here;
On your fidelity I count
Through many a coming year.”

--I started through me at her plight,
So suddenly confessed:
Dismissing late distaste for life,
I craved its bleak unrest.

“I will not die, my One of all!--
To lengthen out thy days
I’ll guard me from minutest harms
That may invest my ways!”

She smiled and went. Since then she comes
Oft when her birth-moon climbs,
Or at the seasons’ ingresses
Or anniversary times;

But grows my grief. When I surcease,
Through whom alone lives she,
Ceases my Love, her words, her ways,
Never again to be!

Answer 2

You might be thinking of "Ozymandias", which is about (among other things) the temporary nature of fame:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias

But here is another that you might enjoy:
http://www.bartleby.com/103/6.html

Answer 3

Tell me the poem first. And I'll help you.

Answer 4

maybe author names with subject will help searc engines--try Keats,Browning, or Stevenson authorship

Answer 5

Recite some lines if you can!

Answer 6

A little more information please.