The winds are laughing along the fields, The birds are singing, the flowers are fair; My feet are light on the hills of joy, And morning brings not a thought of care. The sunlight dances across the waves, And bright are your eyes, my heart's delight! And life is a song we two can sing -- And the river of time runs fast tonight. The winds are sobbing along the fields, The birds are silent, the trees are bare; My feet have forgotten the hills of joy And morning comes with its stab of care; The sunlight glances across the waves -- Your eyes are dim -- O my heart's delight! And life is a song one cannot sing So the river of time runs slow tonight. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HYBRIDS OF WAR: A MORALITY POEM: 1. VIETNAM by KAREN SWENSON COLORADO MORTON'S RIDE by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954) THE MARTYRS OF THE MAINE by RUPERT HUGHES THE HOUSE OF LIFE: JENNY by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI THE SECOND MOTHERHOOD by ST. CLAIR ADAMS RODGERSON'S DOUG by WILLIAM AITKEN L'INDIFFERENT; WATTEAU; THE LOUVRE by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: ADIEU, MIGNONNE, MA BELLE by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON |