WHENE'ER I see those smiling eyes, So full of hope, and joy , and light, As if no cloud could ever rise, To dim a heaven so purely bright I sigh to think how soon that brow In grief may lose its every ray, And that light heart, so joyous now, Almost forget it once was gay. - For time will come with all its blights, The ruined hope, the friend unkind, And love, that leaves, where'er it lights, A chilled or burning heart behind: While youth, that now like snow appears, Ere sullied by the darkening rain, When once ' t is touched by sorrow's tears Can never shine so bright again. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CONTRA MORTEM: THE THAW by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE BOATMAN OF KINSALE by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS ON PLAYWRIGHT (1) by BEN JONSON EULALIE; A SONG by EDGAR ALLAN POE DEWEY IN MANILA BAY [MAY 1, 1898] by RICHARD VORHEES RISLEY THE DARKNESS OF EGYPT by MARIA ABDY |