THESE books you find three weeks behind Your honored anniversary Make me, I fear, to here appear Mayhap a trifle cursory. -- Yet while the Muse must thus refuse The chords that fall caressfully, She seems to stir the publisher And dealer quite successfully. As to our @3birthdays@1 -- let 'em run Until they whir and whiz! Read Robert Louis Stevenson, And hum these lines of his: -- "The eternal dawn, beyond a doubt, Shall break on hill and plain And put all stars and candles out Ere we be young again." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON THE DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM HERVEY by ABRAHAM COWLEY VASHTI by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER A HEALTH by EDWARD COATE PINKNEY THE KING'S GIFT by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING E NIHILO NIHIL by GEORGE GORDON BYRON JUDGMENT SEATS by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE IMPROMPTU ON READING THE CHAPTER ON POLYGAMY by WILLIAM COWPER |