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Poem by Joseph Rodman Drake
Lines
Day gradual fades, in evening gray,
Its last faint beam hath fled,
And sinks the sun’s declining ray
In ocean’s wavy bed.
So o’er the loves and joys of youth
Thy waves, Indifference, roll;
So mantles round our days of truth
That death-pool of the soul.
Spreads o’er the heavens the shadowy night
Her dim and shapeless form,
So human pleasures, frail and light,
Are lost in passion’s storm.
So fades the sunshine of the breast,
So passion’s dreamings fall,
So friendship’s fervours sink to rest,
Oblivion shrouds them all.
Joseph Rodman Drake
Joseph Rodman Drake's other poems:- Lines Written on Leaving New Rochelle
- To a Lady with a Withered Violet
- Song (Oh! go to sleep, my baby dear)
- The American Flag
- Fragment
Poems of the other poets with the same name:
Samuel Johnson Lines ("Wheresoe'er I turn my view") 1777John Keats Lines ("UNFELT unheard, unseen") Thomas Hood Lines ("Let Us Make a Leap, My Dear") Robert Burns Lines ("I MURDER hate by field or flood") 1790Thomas Hardy Lines ("Before we part to alien thoughts and aims") John Lockhart Lines ("When youthful faith hath fled") George Morris Lines ("O Love! the mischief thou hast done!") Oliver Holmes Lines ("COME back to your mother, ye children, for shame") Francis Thompson Lines ("O tree of many branches! One thou hast") Thomas Talfourd Lines ("HOW simple in their grandeur are the forms ") John Reade Lines ("I KNELT down as I poured my spirit forth by that gray gate") Samuel Coleridge Lines ("RICHER than miser o’er his countless hoards") William Wordsworth Lines ("STRANGER! this hillock of misshapen stones") Ebenezer Elliott Lines ("FROM Shirecliffe, o’er a silent sea of trees") Letitia Landon Lines ("She kneels by the grave where her lover sleeps") William Watson Lines (" Go, Verse, nor let the grass of tarrying grow") Richard Trench Lines ("When we are dark and dead")
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