Friday, January 3, 2003

Mild Is The Parting Year Comments

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.
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Walter Savage Landor
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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! !

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Sylvia Frances Chan 02 January 2021

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

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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

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Mahtab Bangalee 02 January 2020

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

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Kevin Patrick 02 January 2019

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

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Edward Kofi Louis 02 January 2019

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

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Adrian Flett 02 January 2019

Can't say the same of 2018.

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Ramesh T A 02 January 2019

Mild feeling of the passing year is the best epitome for it to say good bye and welcoming the new one with human warmth for good hope and progress sure!

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Ruta Mohapatra 02 January 2019

I agree with Susan Williams.

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Mahtab Bangalee 02 January 2019

wonderfully said- Mild is the parting year, and..... ..balmless is its closing day.

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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.

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Kumarmani Mahakul 02 January 2018

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

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Muzahidul Reza 02 January 2018

Mild is the parting year, and sweet, well written

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Savita Tyagi 02 January 2018

Beautiful reflective poem.

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Deepak Kumar Pattanayak 02 January 2018

The coming of new year was as joyful as its parting had been sorrowful......so beautifully composed really very outstanding...........thanks for sharing

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Houda Boukassoula 02 January 2018

A wonderful poem and reflection on time, life; past and future.Thanks for sharing.

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Bernard F. Asuncion 02 January 2017

Happy new year to all friends at PH+++++++++++++ Thanks for sharing this nice poem+++++++

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Jaya Das 02 January 2017

beautifully welcoming the new year....great write....

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Tom Allport 02 January 2017

a poem of reflection and also thoughts for the future.

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Edward Kofi Louis 02 January 2017

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

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