O you who through inexorable years Have worn the fraying garments of the flesh, Now lay aside the measure of your fears While ravelled fabric slips a looser mesh. For lightly as the sun-enamoured fawn Leaps from the covert of his sombrous dell, Shall you emerge into a heavenly dawn From out those shadowy purlieus where you dwell, And your swift-fading vesture of despair Shall settle softly back among the leaves, The residue become more strangely fair. Then of the sorrow that your present grieves Naught shall remain. Remember, O forlorn, That when the body dies, is beauty born! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PARTING by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE ONE CROWDED HOUR, FR. OLD MORTALITY by WALTER SCOTT THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET by SAMUEL WOODWORTH CELESTIAL HEIGHTS by ALFRED AUSTIN SONNET: FOR FREEDOM'S SAKE by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON ROSALIND'S SCROLL by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING TO MARY RUSSELL MITFORD, IN HER GARDEN by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |