LINGER, O gentle Time, Linger, O radiant grace of bright To-day! Let not the hours' chime Call thee away, But linger near me still with fond delay. Linger, for thou art mine! What dearer treasures can the future hold? What sweeter flowers than thine Can she unfold? What secrets tell my heart thou hast not told? O, linger in thy flight! For shadows gather round, and should we part, A dreary, starless night May fill my heart, -- Then pause and linger yet ere thou depart. Linger, I ask no more, -- Thou art enough forever -- thou alone; What future can restore, When thou art flown, All that I hold from thee and call my own? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...1914: 1. PEACE by RUPERT BROOKE TOM BOWLING ['S EPITAPH] by CHARLES DIBDIN ELIOT'S OAK; SONNET by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW LOVE AND TIME by WALTER RALEIGH THE GOUTY MERCHANT AND THE STRANGER by HORACE SMITH THE GENTLE CHECK by JOSEPH BEAUMONT |