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Poem by Bayard Taylor
Song
NOW the days are brief and drear:
Naked lies the new-born Year
In his cradle of the snow,
And the winds unbridled blow,
And the skies hang dark and low, --
For the Summers come and go.
Leave the clashing cymbals mute!
Pipe no more the happy flute!
Sing no more that dancing rhyme
Of the rose's harvest-time; --
Sing a requiem, sad and low:
For the Summers come and go.
Where is Youth? He strayed away
Through the meadow-flowers of May.
Where is Love? The leaves that fell
From his trysting-bower, can tell.
Wisdom stays, sedate and slow,
And the Summers come and go.
Yet a few more years to run,
Wheeling round in gloom and sun:
Other raptures, other woes, --
Toil alternate with Repose:
Then to sleep where daisies grow,
While the Summers come and go.
Bayard Taylor
Bayard Taylor's other poems:- The Norseman’s Ride
- To M. T.
- Through Baltimore
- America to Iceland
- Storm Song
Poems of the other poets with the same name:
Samuel Johnson Song ("Not the soft sighs of vernal gales") Charlotte Mew Song ("Love love to-day, my dear") John Davidson Song ("THE boat is chafing at our long delay") Percy Shelley Song ("Rarely, rarely, comest thou") George Etherege Song ("LADIES, though to your conquering eyes") Edgar Poe Song ("I saw thee on thy bridal day") 1827Bryan Procter Song ("Here's a health to thee, Mary") Mary Chudleigh Song ("Why, Damon, why, why, why so pressing?") Isaac Bickerstaffe Song ("How happy were my days, till now") George Lyttelton Song ("When Delia on the plain appears") 1732Philip Massinger Song ("Why art thou slow, thou rest of trouble, Death") Hilaire Belloc Song ("Inviting the influence of a young lady upon the opening year") Amy Lowell Song ("Oh! To be a flower") Elinor Wylie Song ("It is my thoughts that colour") Mary Montagu Song ("How happy is the harden'd heart") Emma Lazarus Song ("Frosty lies the winter-landscape") Richard Sheridan Song ("Here’s to the maiden of bashful fifteen") George Crabbe Song ("Cease to bid me not to sing") Anna Seward Song ("FROM thy waves, stormy Llannon, I fly") Aubrey De Vere Song ("HIS war-horse beats a distant bourne") Edith Nesbit Song ("NOW the Spring is waking") Maria Lowell Song ("O BIRD, thou dartest to the sun") William Monkhouse Song ("WHO calls me bold because I won my love") Eliza Acton Song ("Give me gay music !—we will not dwell") Thomas Eliot Song ("If space and time, as sages say") 1907Christina Rossetti Song ("O roses for the flush of youth") Irwin Ginsberg Song ("The weight of the world") 1954
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