English Poems by Richard Le Gallienne
page 24 of 86 (27%)
page 24 of 86 (27%)
|
Sweet moving in each other's sight:
Yea, even must we ever miss The honey of the chastest kiss. III But, Song, arise thee on a greater wing, Nor twitter robin-like of love, nor sing A pretty dalliance with grief--but try Some metre like a sky, Wherein to set Stars that may linger yet When I, thy master, shall have come to die. Twitter and tweet Thy carollings Of little things, Of fair and sweet; For it is meet, O robin red! That little theme Hath little song, That little head Hath little dream, And long. But we have starry business, such a grief As Autumn's, dead by some forgotten sheaf, While all the distance echoes of the wain; Grief as an ocean's for some sudden isle Of living green that stayed with it a while, |
|