IN Junior year, ah, fancies light, The soul unfettered, spirits bright! Dwells aught of doubt or fear or night In Junior year? The storms of boyhood's age are past, Youth's doubts and fears away are cast, And budding manhood blooms at last, In Junior year. Desiring but ourselves to please, On every impulse light we seize? We smoke and take the world with ease, In Junior year. But mid the smoke wreaths as they rise, With light as soft as evening skies, There often smiles a pair of eyes, In Junior year. And as at dawn the brightness breaks With quickening glow o'er summer lakes, So love within the heart awakes, In Junior year. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...READ THE SIGNS by CLARENCE MAJOR THE AWAKENING RIVER by KATHERINE MANSFIELD SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: THE VILLAGE ATHEIST by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 4. LOVESIGHT by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI TO WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER EPITAPHS by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |