As one of some fat tillage dispossessed, Weighing the yield of these four faded years, If any ask what fruit seems loveliest, What lasting gold among the garnered ears, -- Ah, then I'll say what hours I had of thine, Therein I reaped Time's richest revenue, Read in thy text the sense of David's line, Through thee achieved the love that Shakespeare knew. Take then his book, laden with mine own love As flowers made sweeter by deep-drunken rain, That when years sunder and between us move Wide waters, and less kindly bonds constrain, Thou may'st turn here, dear boy, and reading see Some part of what thy friend once felt for thee. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ISN'T IT ROMANTIC by KAREN SWENSON A LITTLE WHILE by SARA TEASDALE THE WINE OF NIGHT by LOUIS UNTERMEYER SCINTILLA by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE THE OLD SANTA FE TRAIL by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON THE HILL WIFE: THE IMPULSE by ROBERT FROST |