ALAS! how hardly things go right! 'T is hard to watch on a summer's night, For the sigh will come, and the kiss will stay, And the summer's night is a winter's day. Alas! how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much or a kiss too long, And there comes a mist and a weeping rain, And life is never the same again. And yet how easily things go right, If the sigh and the kiss of the summer's night Come deep from the soul in the stronger ray That is born in the light of the winter's day. And things can never go badly wrong If the heart be true and the love be strong; For the mist, if it comes, and the weeping rain, Will be changed by the love into sunshine again. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FREDERICK DOUGLASS by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE ROAST BEEF OF OLD ENGLAND by HENRY FIELDING ODE TO SILENCE by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY THE GRAPE-VINE SWING by WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS I HAVE A GARMENT by ABRAHAM IBN EZRA EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 10. BLIND LOVE by PHILIP AYRES A REMEMBRANCE OF SOME ENGLISH POETS by RICHARD BARNFIELD |