IT is but a little while ago: The elm-leaves have scarcely begun to drop away; The sunbeams strike the elm-trunk just where they struck that day -- Yet all seems to have happened long ago. And the year rolleth round, slow, slow: Autumn will fade to winter and winter melt in spring, New life return again to every living thing. Soon, this will have happened long ago. The bonnie wee flowers will blow; The trees will re-clothe themselves, the birds sing out amain, -- But never, never, never will the world look again As it looked before this happened -- long ago! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT THE CANNON'S MOUTH by HERMAN MELVILLE HARMOSAN by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH ELEGIAC STANZAS SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE OF PEELE CASTLE, IN A STORM by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH THE ITALICS ARE RICHARD GIFFORD'S by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 45. ALLAH-AL-MUJIB by EDWIN ARNOLD THE MARCH OF THE GHOSTS by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS THE OLD COUPLE by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON UPON A MISER THAT MADE A GREAT FEAST; THE NEXT DAY HE DIED FOR GRIEF by JOHN CLEVELAND |