OH! why should the girl of my soul be in tears At a meeting of rapture like this, When the glooms of the past and the sorrow of years Have been paid by a moment of bliss? Are they shed for that moment of blissful delight, Which dwells on her memory yet? Do they flow, like the dews of the amorous night, From the warmth of the sun that has set? Oh! sweet is the tear on that languishing smile, That smile, which is loveliest then; And if such are the drops that delight can beguile, Thou shalt weep them again and again! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO PFRIMMER (LINES ON READING 'DRIFTWOOD') by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME by PATRICK SARSFIELD GILMORE OUR COUNTRY by JULIA WARD HOWE EPIGRAM: 118. ON GUT by BEN JONSON SONNET: 102 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE IN THE ROOM by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882) EASTER 1916 by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |