Sweet, fervent couples, in your spring flight! Love as the days fashion: All, shadow, song, perfume, and light, Bind and unbind passion. While yet you are faithful, spend and rouse Your warm unreason, You will not hold your eternal vows Till the next season. The wind that mingles the branches or parts them Has less sudden play Than the desire of beings that starts them One to the next, and away. The gentle rustlings of earth and of ocean, Grain thrusting higher, Sorrow, and death, direct their motion More than desire. Joyful in the gardens where green summer settles You laugh and call, But the intertwined fingers, even as the petals, Move to their fall. The eyes whose looks dance like bees aswarm Their store to bring, Will no longer yield you, equally warm, Honey and sting. There will no longer in your hearts abide Harmonious breath, Your souls will crabbedly subside Through love and death. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INEVITABLY (2) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON MARIANNA ALCOFORANDO by SARA TEASDALE THE PETRIFIED FERN by MARY LYDIA BOLLES BRANCH GRENADIER by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SERIES. THE COURTIN' by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL STANZAS WRITTEN IN DEJECTION, NEAR NAPLES by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY |