IN lighter vein, -- blue eyes and rosy lips, Gay songs and dances, jests and merry quips; No thought of the great mysteries of Pain And Life and Death, but just a clear refrain, That in 'twixt thoughts of love and laughter slips, Light as the foam that from the oar-blade drips, -- Such is the measure of our careless strain, In lighter vein. Safe into port come all our wandering ships, From those dim lands o'er which the horizon dips; Our Fancy's castles prove not all in Spain; Oh, life is fair and every path is plain, If we but woo the muse who ever trips In lighter vein. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 101 by OMAR KHAYYAM THE BROOK; AN IDYL: THE BROOK'S SONG by ALFRED TENNYSON TO A COMMON PROSTITUTE by WALT WHITMAN THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 3. THE GRAVE BY THE LAKE by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS HYMN TO FIRE by KONSTANTIN DMITRIYEVICH BALMONT SONNETS OF MANHOOD: SONNET 25. 'SOMETHING WAS WANTING' by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) CREOLE SLAVE SONG: THE SONG OF CAYETANO'S CIRCUS by GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE |