SHOW thee as I thought thee When I early sought thee, Omen-scouting, All undoubting Love alone had wrought thee -- Wrought thee for my pleasure, Planned thee as a measure For expounding And resounding Glad things that men treasure. O for but a moment Of that old endowment -- Light to gaily See thy daily Irised embowment! But such readorning Time forbids with scorning -- Makes me see things Cease to be things They were in my morning. Fad'st thou, glow-forsaken, Darkness-overtaken! Thy first sweetness, Radiance, meetness, None shall reawaken. Why not sempiternal Thou and I? Our vernal Brightness keeping, Time outleaping; Passed the hodiernal! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO A POET, WHO WOULD HAVE ME PRAISE CERTAIN BAD POETS, IMITATORS ... by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS LINES TO THE MEMORY OF ANNIE WHO DIED AT MILAN, JUNE 6, 1860 by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE WRITTEN, AT THE REQUEST OF A GENTLEMAN, UNDER A .. PICTURE by RICHARD BARNFIELD MOLE CATCHER by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN SPRING FANTASIES: 2. THE SPRING RETURNS by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON |