When we're together, how the moments fly! We toss them up like jewels in the sun; We catch them lightly as a falling leaf, To find a light that's new in every one; Life then to us is all a game of play With leaves and jewels, and too short a day. But when alone with Time, and you away, I hear those heavy, deadly strokes of his At Life's foundations, aiming at our years, That fall in thuds from blows that never miss; What are our moments then, so weak and small — When years of life are heard to crash and fall! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FORERUNNERS by RALPH WALDO EMERSON THE STIRRUP-CUP by JOHN MILTON HAY MEZZO CAMMIN by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE SOUND OF THE SEA; SONNET by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW WITCH-WIFE by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY AMBITION AND CONTENT; A FABLE by MARK AKENSIDE |