FAREWELL! we part as ne'er before I've parted been from thee, For we, alas, shall meet no more Upon Life's troubled sea! We met when Summer's glorious prime Poured radiance o'er the earth, When breezes, as of southern clime, Woo'd the young blossoms forth. No blossoms now their leaves unfold, No fragrant zephyrs blow; And the long night, so dark and cold, Steals silent o'er the snow. Thus o'er my heart stern shadows speed, There reigns a deeper night; For I have "sown the wind" for seed, And "reaped the whirlwind's" might! The summer will, ere long, restore To earth her fragrant flowers, But to my heart it brings no more Its joyous, happy hours! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MASTER-PLAYER by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE OL' TUNES by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR COLUMBUS by EDWARD EVERETT HALE JANUARY, 1795 by MARY DARBY ROBINSON LITTLE BELL by THOMAS WESTWOOD THREE PASTORAL ELEGIES: TO THE READER (1) by WILLIAM BASSE THE SONG OF THE SAVOYARDS by HENRY AMES BLOOD THE ELDER WOMAN'S SONG: 4, FR. KING LEAR'S WIFE by GORDON BOTTOMLEY |