Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM, by THOMAS MOORE Poet's Biography First Line: O the days are gone when beauty bright Last Line: On life's dull stream! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Disappointment; Love | ||||||||
O THE days are gone when beauty bright My heart's chain wove! When my dream of life, from morn till night, Was love, still love! New hope may bloom, And days may come, Of milder, calmer beam, But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream! O, there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream! Though the bard to purer fame may soar, When wild youth's past; Though he win the wise, who frowned before To smile-at last; He'll never meet A joy so sweet In all his noon of fame As when first he sung to woman's ear His soul-felt flame, And at every close she blushed to hear The one loved name! O, that hallowed form is ne'er forgot, Which first love traced; Still it lingering haunts the greenest spot On memory's waste! 'T was odor fled As soon as shed; 'T was morning's winged dream; 'T was a light that ne'er can shine again On life's dull stream! O, 't was a light that ne'er can shine again On life's dull stream! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD A CANADIAN BOAT SONG; WRITTEN ON THE RIVER ST. LAWRENCE by THOMAS MOORE |
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