Does anyone know of a poem(s) that deal with "change?"..... i.e. dealing with change, coping with a situation that has changed, adapting to change.
Changed
From the outskirts of the town
Where of old the mile-stone stood.
Now a stranger, looking down
I behold the shadowy crown
Of the dark and haunted wood.
Is it changed, or am I changed?
Ah! the oaks are fresh and green,
But the friends with whom I ranged
Through their thickets are estranged
By the years that intervene.
Bright as ever flows the sea,
Bright as ever shines the sun,
But alas! they seem to me
Not the sun that used to be,
Not the tides that used to run.
-Longfellow
Taller to-day
Taller to-day, we remember similar evenings,
Walking together in windless orchards,
Where the brook runs over the gravel, far from the glacier.
Nights come bringing the dead howl
Under headlands in their windy dwelling
Because the Adversary put too easy questions
On lonely roads.
But happy now, though no nearer each other,
We see farms lighted all along the valley,
Down at the mill-shed hammering stops
And men go home.
Noises at dawn will bring
Freedom for some; but not this peace
No bird can contradict: passing but here, sufficient now,
For something fulfilled this hour, loved or endured.
-Auden