If in loving, singing, night and day We could trifle merrily life away, Like atoms dancing in the beam, Like day-flies skimming o'er the stream, Or summer blossoms, born to sigh Their sweetness out, and die-- How brilliant, thoughtless, side by side, Thou and I could make our minutes glide! No atoms ever glanced so bright, No day-flies ever danced so light, Nor summer blossoms mixt their sigh, So close, as thou and I! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DOMESDAY BOOK: GREGORY WENNER by EDGAR LEE MASTERS HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 8 by EZRA POUND A DAY DREAM by EMILY JANE BRONTE BEN BOLT by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH FIFTY YEARS (1863-1913) by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON THE YOUNG MAY MOON by THOMAS MOORE THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY |