Life on the wane: yes, sudden that news breaks. And yet I would 'twere suddenly and less soon; Since no forewarning makes loss opportune. And now I watch that slow advance Time makes: Watch as, while silent flow spreads broad the lakes Mid the land levels of a smooth lagoon, One waiting, pitiful, on a tidal dune, Aware too long before it overtakes. Ah! there's so quick a joy in hues and sun, And will my eyes see dim? Will vacant sense Forget the lark, the surges on the beach? Shall I step wearily and wish 'twere done? Well, if it be love will not too go hence, Love will have new glad secrets yet to teach. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EPITAPH ON S.P., A CHILD OF QUEEN ELIZABETH'S CHAPEL by BEN JONSON DEAD MAN'S DUMP by ISAAC ROSENBERG SONNET: 109 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ON CHLORIS WALKING IN THE SNOW by WILLIAM STRODE THE IDEAL GENERAL by ARCHILOCHUS THE STEAM-ENGINE: CANTO 7. LESSON FOR THE PROUD by T. BAKER |