We laughed and loved as the summer went, And were content; We sighed when love and the year grew cold, That year of old. 'Twixt the laugh and the sigh was a paradise Aglow with the light of your radiant eyes— A place of cloudless dreams and skies, Till we were wise! Still summer comes with its balminess, But my heart brims over with vague distress; I miss the summer past and, yes, Your old caress. Dear love of old, is your heart as true As mine to you? Is to-day the past's equivalent— Are you content? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MA LADY'S LIPS AM LIKE DE HONEY (NEGRO LOVE SONG) by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: IMANUEL EHRENHARDT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS HORACE TO LEUCONOE by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON |