DAPHNIS @3waiting.@1 "O DRYAD feet, Be doubly fleet, Timed to my heart's expectant beat While I await her! 'At four,' vowed she; 'T is scarcely three, Yet by @3my@1 time it seems to be A good hour later!" CHLOE. "Bid me not stay! Hear reason, pray! 'T is striking six! Sure never day Was short as this is!" DAPHNIS. "Reason nor rhyme Is in the chime! It can't be five; I 've scarce had time To beg two kisses!" BOTH. "Early or late, When lovers wait, And Love's watch gains, if Time a gait So snail-like chooses, Why should his feet Become more fleet Than cowards' are, when lovers meet And Love's watch loses?" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FRIENDS BEYOND by THOMAS HARDY THE OLD CLOCK ON THE STAIRS by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE QUAKER GRAVEYARD by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL UNSOPHISTICATED WISHES, BY MISS JEMINA INGOLDSBY, AGED 15 by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM |