Your youth flowed on, a river chaste and fair, Till thirty years were written to your name. A wife, a mother, these the titles were Which conquered for you the world's fairest fame. In all things you were wise but in this one, That of your wisdom you yourself did doubt. Youth spent like age, no joy beneath the sun. Your glass of beauty vainly running out. Then suddenly again, ere well you knew, Love looked upon you tenderly, yet sad: "Are these wise follies, then, enough for you?" He said;—"Love's wisdom were itself less mad." And you: "What wouldst thou of me?" "My bare due, In token of what joys may yet be had." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LONDON CHURCHES by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES SHAMEFUL DEATH by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 23 by OMAR KHAYYAM HER FIRST-BORN by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 46. AL-WASI'H by EDWIN ARNOLD EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 14. THE POWERFUL ATTRACTION by PHILIP AYRES |