WOULD you be young again? So would not I -- One tear to memory giv'n, Onward I'd hie. Life's dark flood forded o'er, All but at rest on shore, Say, would you plunge once more, With home so nigh? If you might, would you now Retrace your way? Wander through thorny wilds, Faint and astray? Night's gloomy watches fled, Morning all beaming red, Hope's smiles around us shed, Heavenward -- away. Where are they gone, of yore My best delight? Dear and more dear, tho' now Hidden from sight. Where they rejoice to be, There is the land for me; Fly time -- fly speedily, Come life and light. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BOTHWELL: PART 3 by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN THE BATTLE OF QUEENSTOWN by WILLIAM BANKER JR. WALT WHITMAN by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) THE TROUBLED SPIRIT by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN TRAFFIC WARNING by RICHARD WARNER BORST STRAFFORD; A TRAGEDY by ROBERT BROWNING TO MY BROTHER (2) by MARY BRYAN THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: ON THE SEA by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON |