Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TOO LATE, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE


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First Line: Too late I bring my heart, too late 'tis yours
Last Line: Too late! Too long!
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Time


TOO late I bring my heart, too late 'tis yours;
Too late to bring the true love that endures;
Too long, unthrift, I gave it here and there,
Spent it in idle love and idle song;
Youth seemed so rich, with kisses all to spare --
Too late! too long!

Too late, O fairy woman; dreams and dust
Are in your hair, your face is dimly thrust
Among the flowers; and Time, that all forgets,
Even you forgets, and only I prolong
The face I love, with ache of vain regrets --
Too late! too long!

Too long I tarried, and too late I come,
O eyes and lips so strangely sealed and dumb:
My heart -- what is it now, beloved, to you?
My love -- that doth your holy silence wrong?
Ah! fairy face, star-crowned and chrismed with dew --
Too late! too long!





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