COME out, Playfellow! Do you hear me sing And beat against the door? Come out! Come out! Let us put all the settling leaves to rout, And breathe out silver frost at everything; Let us match swiftness with the sea-bird's wing, And laugh into the sunlight, laugh and shout That day is up, the great gods are about; Let our loud calling make the hillsides ring! What if we know that winter is supreme, That autumn fades, that all this life must die,— That in the end our love is only dream, And sometime in dead brightness all will lie? We have today, with the whole earth agleam, The sun to flaunt in, and the voice to cry! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SUSSEX DRINKING SONG by HILAIRE BELLOC FUGUE FOR A DROWNED GIRL by JAMES GALVIN GUARDIANSHIP by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE PASSING OF THE EX-SLAVE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON STREET-CRIES: 7. A SONG OF LOVE by SIDNEY LANIER I PAY MY DEBT FOR LAFAYETTE AND ROCHAMBEAU' by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |