LINGER, O gentle Time, Linger, O radiant grace of bright To-day! Let not the hours' chime Call thee away, But linger near me still with fond delay. Linger, for thou art mine! What dearer treasures can the future hold? What sweeter flowers than thine Can she unfold? What secrets tell my heart thou hast not told? O, linger in thy flight! For shadows gather round, and should we part, A dreary, starless night May fill my heart, -- Then pause and linger yet ere thou depart. Linger, I ask no more, -- Thou art enough forever -- thou alone; What future can restore, When thou art flown, All that I hold from thee and call my own? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE VIRTUOSO; IN IMITATION OF SPENCER'S STYLE AND STANZA by MARK AKENSIDE FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 7. CHERRY RIPE by THOMAS CAMPION FOUR THINGS [TO DO] by HENRY VAN DYKE THESEUS AND ARIADNE by FRANCIS BEAUMONT PSALM 144 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE INTRUSION by MAXWELL BODENHEIM |