ON the mind's lonely hill-top lying I saw man's life go by like a breath, And Love that longs to be love undying, Bowed with fear of the void of death. "If Time be master," I heard her weeping, "How shall I save the loves I bore? They are gone, they are gone beyond my keeping— @3Anima mundi, sis memor@1! "Soul of the World, thou seest them failing— Childhood's loveliness, child's delight— Lost as stars in the daylight paling, Trodden to earth as flowers in fight. Surely in these thou hast thy pleasure— Yea! they are thine and born therefor: Shall they not be with thy hid treasure?— @3Anima mundi, sis memor@1! "Only a moment we can fold them Here in the home whose life they are: Only a moment more behold them As in a picture, small and far. Oh, in the years when even this seeming Lightens the eyes of Love no more, Dream them still in thy timeless dreaming @3Anima mundi, sis memor@1!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MEETING AT NIGHT by ROBERT BROWNING A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 35 by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN IRELAND (1847) by DENIS FLORENCE MCCARTHY WINTER TREE by WALTER R. ADAMS STORM AT SEA (2) by ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE |