IN THREE DAYS. 1. So, I shall see her in three days And just one night, but nights are short, 2. Too long, this time of year, the days! But nights at least the nights are short. As night shows where her one moon is, A hand's-breadth of pure light and bliss, So, life's night gives my lady birth And my eyes hold her! what is worth The rest of heaven, the rest of earth? 3. O loaded curls, release your store The tingling hair did, lights and darks Thro' lights and darks how manifold - 4. What great fear - should one say, "Three days Be happy that no worse befell.” "Three days and one short night beside years must teem with change untried, With chance not easily defied, With an end somewhere undescried." No fear! - or if a fear be born This minute, it dies out in scorn. IN A YEAR. 1. NEVER any more While I live, Need I hope to see his face As before. Once his love grown chill, Mine may strive – Bitterly we re-embrace, Single still. 2. Was it something said, Something done, Vexed him? was it touch of hand, Turn of head? Strange! that very way Love begun. I as little understand Love's decay. |