O YE hours! ye sunny hours! Floating lightly by, Are ye come with birds and flowers, Odours and blue sky? "Yes! we come, again we come, Through the wood-paths free: Bringing many a wanderer home, With the bird and bee." O ye hours! ye sunny hours! Are ye wafting song? Doth wild music stream in showers All the groves among? "Yes! the nightingale is there While the starlight reigns, Making young leaves and sweet air Tremble with her strains" O ye hours! ye sunny hours! In your silent flow, Ye are mighty, mighty powers! Bring ye bliss or woe? "Ask not this -- oh! seek not this! Yield your hearts awhile To the soft wind's balmy kiss, And the heaven's bright smile. "Throw not shades of anxious thought O'er the glowing flowers! We are come with sunshine fraught, Question not the hours!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BLIND by EDGAR LEE MASTERS COUNTESS LAURA by GEORGE HENRY BOKER THE FORGOTTEN GRAVE by EMILY DICKINSON NATIONAL ODE; INDEPENDENCE SQUARE, PHILADELPHIA by BAYARD TAYLOR THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 11. ABRAHAM DAVENPORT by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER ON THE SALE BY AUCTION OF KEATS' LOVE LETTERS by OSCAR WILDE |