Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ALONE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES


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First Line: When we're together, how the moments fly!
Last Line: When years of life are heard to crash and fall!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation


When we're together, how the moments fly!
We toss them up like jewels in the sun;
We catch them lightly as a falling leaf,
To find a light that's new in every one;
Life then to us is all a game of play
With leaves and jewels, and too short a day.

But when alone with Time, and you away,
I hear those heavy, deadly strokes of his
At Life's foundations, aiming at our years,
That fall in thuds from blows that never miss;
What are our moments then, so weak and small —
When years of life are heard to crash and fall!





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