Life on the wane: yes, sudden that news breaks. And yet I would 'twere suddenly and less soon; Since no forewarning makes loss opportune. And now I watch that slow advance Time makes: Watch as, while silent flow spreads broad the lakes Mid the land levels of a smooth lagoon, One waiting, pitiful, on a tidal dune, Aware too long before it overtakes. Ah! there's so quick a joy in hues and sun, And will my eyes see dim? Will vacant sense Forget the lark, the surges on the beach? Shall I step wearily and wish 'twere done? Well, if it be love will not too go hence, Love will have new glad secrets yet to teach. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...I PAY MY DEBT FOR LAFAYETTE AND ROCHAMBEAU' by EDGAR LEE MASTERS DOMESDAY BOOK: DR. BURKE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS BE STRONG by MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK THE DEIL'S AWA WI' TH' EXCISEMAN by ROBERT BURNS DOUGLAS, DOUGLAS, TENDER AND TRUE by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK THE WORD by WILLIAM WALSHAM HOW |