AUTUMN songs in the spring? Every song has its season. Let youth have its fling: Only age has its reason. Now's no time for regretting; Day will come, to look back. While we lack not, no fretting: Soon enough shall we lack. Say you, All's gone and done with? Life, a well-rounded whole? While we've eyes to see sun with There's no end to the soul. Nor to sense, if soul sleeps not; This love ends, that begins. He for losses who weeps not, A new joy next day wins. Life's but losing and winning, While aught's left worth the crown, As this coin I set spinning Heads or tails must come down. Old loves not forgotten Live in every new joy; But if memory turn rotten, Then no hope for you, boy. While the past was alive yet, To the past I was true. Past is past. Love shall thrive yet. Off with old's on with new. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE VOLUNTEER by ELBRIDGE JEFFERSON CUTLER RAIN IN SUMMER by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE HARLEM DANCER by CLAUDE MCKAY MEADOW-SAFFRON by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE THE LAMENT: A BALLAD by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |