We are born; we laugh; we weep; We love; we droop; we die! Ah! wherefore do we laugh or weep? Why do we live or die? Who knows that secret deep? Alas not I! Why doth the violet spring Unseen by human eye? Why do the radiant seasons bring Sweet thoughts that quickly fly? Why do our fond hearts cling To things that die? We toil -- through pain and wrong; We fight -- and fly; We love; we lose; and then, ere long, Stone-dead we lie, O life! is all thy song "Endure and -- die?" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A COURT LADY by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING FOR LOVE'S SAKE, KISS ME ONCE AGAIN! by BEN JONSON GRIEF WAS SENT THEE FOR THY GOOD by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY PSALM 43. JUDICA ME DEUS by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE TO F.A.B., A VIRTUOUS YOUNG PHYSICIAN ABOUT TO PRACTISE by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB THE PALACE OF OMARTES by EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON |