CHIDE not because I doubt who would believe! Has not my life been like that April day Whose dawn awoke us with such proud display Of mocking glory, kindled to deceive, While in the distance low winds seemed to grieve, -- Winds sad with prophecy, -- then skies grew gray, And all the morning splendor passed away, And dark with rain came on the gusty eve? That was my birthday, symbol of my birth, -- Capricious April's heir, the sport of Fate, Doomed to be better friends with Grief than Mirth, To know no love that did not come too late, -- My only hope, sore spent with life's long pain, In some glad morning to be born again. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DEXTER GORDON: COPENHAGEN/AVERY FISHER HALL by KAREN SWENSON RIDDLE ON THE LETTER H (2) by CATHERINE MARIA FANSHAWE THYESTES, ACT 2: CHORUS by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 64 by PHILIP SIDNEY CLEVER TOM CLINCH GOING TO BE HANGED by JONATHAN SWIFT IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 47 by ALFRED TENNYSON OVID TO HIS WIFE: IMITATED FROM DIFFERENT PARTS OF TRISTIA by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |