The World dictates my life from day to day, It holds my purse, and cuts my pleasures down, If I would ride, it tells me I must walk, It counts my concerts when I live in Town. Yet when I see yon lovely hill this morning, All white and sepia with its trees and snow – Who'll think I'd be a wiser, better man To sit in cushions at a gilded show? So let the World dictate my daily life, Let beauty last till Summer brings me more – Where lovers, paired together, laugh and play, As they go wobbling sideways past my door. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LEE TO THE REAR [MAY 12, 1864] by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON SONNET by KATHARINE REBECCA ADAMS DRINKING SONG (5) by ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE TO THE YOUNG ARTIST, KAYSER OF KASERWERTH by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |