Leisure, thou goddess of a bygone age, When hours were long and days sufficed to hold Wide-eyed delights and pleasures uncontrolled By shortening moments, when no gaunt presage Of undone duties, modern heritage, Haunted our happy minds; must thou withhold Thy presence from this over-busy world, And bearing silence with thee disengage Our twined fortunes? Deeps of unhewn woods Alone can cherish thee, alone possess Thy quiet, teeming vigor. This our crime: Not to have worshipped, marred by alien moods That sole condition of all loveliness, The dreaming lapse of slow, unmeasured time. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DRUMS AND BRASS by DONALD (GRADY) DAVIDSON A SUMMER'S GARDEN by ROBERT FROST ON TALK OF PEACE AT THIS TIME by ROBERT FROST GEOMETRY IS THE MIND OF GOD by JAMES GALVIN AFTER WRITING A POEM by DAVID IGNATOW HEGIRA by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON |