A LITTLE while ago you knew not I was I -- A little while ago I knew not you were you -- Now the swift hours have run by, And all the world is new. I hear the young birds sing In the rosy light of morn; Like them I could take wing, And sing as newly born. A little while from now I shall be far away -- A little while from now your face I shall not see -- But within my heart a ray To light the dark will be. Do you not know that pain So sad, so sweet, so coy, That comes, and comes again, The gentle ghost of Joy? Ah, that shall dwell with me, When your face I do not see! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: DIPPOLD THE OPTICIAN by EDGAR LEE MASTERS ECHO AND SILENCE by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES THE MILKMAID'S SONG by SYDNEY THOMPSON DOBELL O MORS! QUAM AMARA EST MEMORIA TUA HOMINI PACEM HABENTI by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON HESPERIA by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE THE TRIUMPH OF TIME by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE THE TWO TREES by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |