FAREWELL! we part as ne'er before I've parted been from thee, For we, alas, shall meet no more Upon Life's troubled sea! We met when Summer's glorious prime Poured radiance o'er the earth, When breezes, as of southern clime, Woo'd the young blossoms forth. No blossoms now their leaves unfold, No fragrant zephyrs blow; And the long night, so dark and cold, Steals silent o'er the snow. Thus o'er my heart stern shadows speed, There reigns a deeper night; For I have "sown the wind" for seed, And "reaped the whirlwind's" might! The summer will, ere long, restore To earth her fragrant flowers, But to my heart it brings no more Its joyous, happy hours! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AN INSINCERE WISH ADDRESSED TO A BEGGAR by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE A SATIRE [OR, SATYR] AGAINST MANKIND by JOHN WILMOT THE WELFORD WEDDING by ELIZABETH FRANCES AMHERST THREE SONNETS WRITTEN IN MID-CHANNEL: 3 by ALFRED AUSTIN THREE THINGS by CHRISTOPHER BANNISTER TRANSFERABLE MERIT by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE TO MOLIERE by NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX |