Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, or a kiss too long, And there follows a mist and a weeping rain, And life is never the same again. Alas, how hardly things go right! 'Tis hard to watch in a summer night, For the sigh will come, and the kiss will stay; And the summer night is a wintry day. And yet how easily things go right, If the sigh and a kiss of a summer's night Come deep from the soul in the stronger ray That is born in the light of the winter's day. And things can never go badly wrong If the heart be true and the love be strong, For the mist, if it comes, and the weeping rain Will be changed by the love into sunshine again. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WINDFLOWER LEAF by CARL SANDBURG AULD LANG SYNE by ROBERT BURNS SOMETHING CHILDISH, BUT VERY NATURAL; WRITTEN IN GERMANY by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; IN MEMORIAM by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON |