 | The poetical works of Lucy Larcom |  |
WOULD YOU?
Could you keep the tints of spring
On the woods in misty brightness,—
Keep the half-veiled boughs a-swing
To the linnet's flitting lightness,—
Through the birch leaves' rippling green
Hold the maple-keys from dropping,—
On the sward with May-showers clean,
Cheat the violets into stopping;
On the woods in misty brightness,—
Keep the half-veiled boughs a-swing
To the linnet's flitting lightness,—
Through the birch leaves' rippling green
Hold the maple-keys from dropping,—
On the sward with May-showers clean,
Cheat the violets into stopping;
Could you make the rosebud's lips
Vow to be a bud forever,—
From the sedges' wavering tips
Bid the dewy pearl drop never;
Could you make the sunrise hour
For a lifetime overbrood you;
Could you change the year's full dower
For its first faint promise—would you?
Vow to be a bud forever,—
From the sedges' wavering tips
Bid the dewy pearl drop never;
Could you make the sunrise hour
For a lifetime overbrood you;
Could you change the year's full dower
For its first faint promise—would you?
Though a bubbling cup we quaff,
Fresh from sunny founts of morning,
When the world is all a laugh,
And a welcome without warning;—
At life's Cana-feast, the guest,
Lingering on, with thirst unsated,
Finds a later draught the best:
Miracles,—when thou hast waited!
Fresh from sunny founts of morning,
When the world is all a laugh,
And a welcome without warning;—
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Lingering on, with thirst unsated,
Finds a later draught the best:
Miracles,—when thou hast waited!
Thought must shade and sun the soul
With its glorious mutations;
Every life-song is a whole
Sweeter for its variations.
Wherefore with your bliss at strife?
'T was an angel that withstood you!
Could you change your perfect life
For a dream of living—would you?
With its glorious mutations;
Every life-song is a whole
Sweeter for its variations.
Wherefore with your bliss at strife?
'T was an angel that withstood you!
Could you change your perfect life
For a dream of living—would you?
| The poetical works of Lucy Larcom | |