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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EARLY THOUGHTS, by WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY Poet's Biography First Line: Oh gather the thoughts of your early years Last Line: The thoughts that we thought when young. | |||
OH gather the thoughts of your early years, Gather them as they flow, For all unmarked in those thoughts appears The path where you soon must go. Full many a dream will wither away, And Springtide hues are brief, But the lines are there of the autumn day, Like the skeleton in the leaf. The husbandman knows not the worth of his seed Until the flower be sprung, And only in age can we rightly read The thoughts that we thought when young. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOVE AND SORROW by WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY OLD AGE by WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY UNDEVELOPED LIVES by WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY VOICES OF THE EVENING by WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY OUR CHRIST by HARRY WEBB FARRINGTON SHERMAN by RICHARD WATSON GILDER IN TENEBRIS: 2 by THOMAS HARDY A LIFE'S PARALLELS by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI MANASSAS [JULY 21, 1861] by CATHERINE ANNE WARFIELD THE NEW SIRENS: A PALINODE by MATTHEW ARNOLD |
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