No -- Leave my heart to rest, if rest it may, When youth, and love, and hope, have passed away. Could'st thou, when summer hours are fled, To some poor leaf that's fall'n and dead, Bring back the hue it wore, the scent it shed? No -- leave this heart to rest, if rest it may, When youth, and love, and hope, have passed away. Oh, had I met thee then, when life was bright, Thy smile might still have fed its tranquil light; But now thou com'st like sunny skies, Too late to cheer the seaman's eyes, When wrecked and lost his bark before him lies! No -- leave this heart to rest, if rest it may, Since youth, and love, and hope, have passed away. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ACROSS THE RED SKY by KATHERINE MANSFIELD MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS by ROBERT BURNS THE BELL by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES TO MRS. THRALE [ON HER COMPLETING HER THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR] by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) THE LAW OF THE YUKON by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE MYRRHA by VITTORIO AMEDEO ALFIERI PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 88. AL-MUGHNI by EDWIN ARNOLD |