WHENE'ER I see those smiling eyes, So full of hope, and joy , and light, As if no cloud could ever rise, To dim a heaven so purely bright I sigh to think how soon that brow In grief may lose its every ray, And that light heart, so joyous now, Almost forget it once was gay. - For time will come with all its blights, The ruined hope, the friend unkind, And love, that leaves, where'er it lights, A chilled or burning heart behind: While youth, that now like snow appears, Ere sullied by the darkening rain, When once ' t is touched by sorrow's tears Can never shine so bright again. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TORTOISE SHELL by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE THE SPIRIT OF POETRY by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW ETUDE REALISTE by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE S. BARNABIE by JOSEPH BEAUMONT SONNETS WRITTEN IN AN IRISH PRISON: HER NAME LIBERTY by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT ANSWER TO LINES WRITTEN IN ROUSSEAU'S LETTERS OF AN ITALIAN NUN by GEORGE GORDON BYRON |