AS Love and Hope together Walk by me for a while, Link-armed the ways they travel For many a pleasant mile -- Link-armed and dumb they travel, They sing not, but they smile. Hope leaving, Love commences To practise on the lute; And as he sings and travels With lingering, laggard foot, Despair plays @3obbligato@1 The sentimental flute. Until in singing garments, Comes royally, at call -- Comes limber-hipped Indiff'rence Free stepping, straight and tall -- Comes singing and lamenting, The sweetest pipe of all. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VIGNETTES OVERSEAS: 9. VILLA SEBELLONI, BELLAGGIO by SARA TEASDALE A HYMN; AFTER READING 'LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT' by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE HEATHEN PASS-EE by ARTHUR CLEMENT HILTON IMITATIONS OF HORACE: ODE IV, 1 by ALEXANDER POPE THE BOATMAN by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI IDYLL 11. THE CYCLOPS by THEOCRITUS TO THE VERS LIBRIST WHO USES ONLY THE MINOR KEY by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS |