Thou gentle Look, that didst my soul beguile, Why hast thou left me? Still in some fond dream Revisit my sad heart, auspicious Smile! As falls on closing flowers the lunar beam: What time, in sickly mood, at parting day I lay me down and think of happier years; Of Joys, that glimmered in Hope's twilight ray, Then left me darkling in a vale of tears. O pleasant days of hope -- for ever gone! -- Could I recall you! -- But that thought is vain. Availeth not Persuasion's sweetest tone To lure the fleet-winged Travellers back again: Yet fair, though faint, their images shall gleam Like the bright Rainbow on a willowy stream. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; IN MEMORIAM by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON TO ONE IN PARADISE by EDGAR ALLAN POE MANNERLY MARGERY, MILK AND ALE by JOHN SKELTON THE SECOND COMING by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS AFTER THE PLAY by HAMILTON FISH ARMSTRONG |