COME away! -- the child, where flowers are springing Round its footsteps on the mountain-slope, Hears a glad voice from the upland singing, Like the skylark's with its tone of hope: Come away! Bounding on, with sunny lands before him, All the wealth of glowing life outspread, Ere the shadow of a cloud comes o'er him, By that strain the youth in joy is led: Come away! Slowly, sadly, heavy change is falling O'er the sweetness of the voice within; Yet its tones, on restless manhood calling, Urge the hunter still to chase, to win: Come away! Come away! -- the heart at last forsaken, Smile by smile, hath proved each hope untrue; Yet a breath can still those words awaken, Though to other shores far hence they woo: Come away! In the light leaves, in the reed's faint sighing, In the low sweet sounds of early spring, Still their music wanders -- till the dying Hears them pass, as on a spirit's wing: Come away! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DECEPTION PASS; FOR JUDY AND MARK KAWASAKI by KAREN SWENSON WITH WHOM IS NO VARIABLENESS, NEITHER SHADOW OF TURNING' by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH GROWING GRAY by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON CORN-LAW HYMN by EBENEZER ELLIOTT ANOTHER FRANCIS OF ASSISI by FREDERICK HENRY HERBERT ADLER |