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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AD ASTRA: 65, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE
First Line: How brief, how frail, the highest human love!
Last Line: Doth break the chilly silence evermore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Mortality
First Line: How brief, how frail, the highest human love!
Last Line: Doth break the chilly silence evermore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Mortality
How brief, how frail, the highest human love!
Yet constancy in love each mortal craves.
Unless thy trust in God knows no remove,
This life is but a sleep on summer waves—
Rough winds will toss thee to their ocean caves,
Thro' which the bellowing sea with thundrous roar
Doth break the chilly silence evermore.
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