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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHANGE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: How much of change lies in a little space!
Last Line: Grows dark and actual.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Change
First Line: How much of change lies in a little space!
Last Line: Grows dark and actual.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Change
HOW much of change lies in a little space!
How soon the spirits leave their youth behind!
The early green forsakes the bough; the flowers,
Nature's more fairy-like and fragile ones,
Droop on the way-side, and the later leaves
Have artifice and culture -- so the heart:
How soon its soft spring hours take darker hues!
And hopes, that were like rainbows, melt in shade;
While the fair future, ah! how fair it seemed!
Grows dark and actual.
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