If two may read aright These rhymes of old delight And house and garden play, You too, my cousins, and you only, may. You in a garden green With me were king and queen, Were hunter, soldier, tar, And all the thousand things that children are. Now in the elders' seat We rest with quiet feet, And from the window-bay We watch the children, our successors, play. "Time was," the golden head Irrevocably said; But time which none can bind, While flowing fast away, leaves love behind. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON BRODSKY'S COLLECTED by MICHAEL S. HARPER THE COLOR SERGEANT by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON PARTING LOVERS by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING BROTHER AND SISTER by MARY ANN EVANS WIDOW MALONE by CHARLES JAMES LEVER EVEN SO by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI LAMENT OF THE MASTER ERSKINE by ALEXANDER SCOTT (1520-1590) |