To Mirimond

________________________________________________
Title:     To Mirimond
Author: Olive Tilford Dargan [More Titles by Dargan]

(HER BIRTHDAY, IN DECEMBER)

Dost think that Time, to whom stars vainly sue,
Will for thy beauty keep one fixed place?
Or that he may, o'er-weighed with seasons due,
Forget one Spring where veinlet tendrils lace
Rose over rose to make this flower, thy face?
Look round thee now, dear dupe of sweet hey-day!
Of what once blooming joy canst thou find trace
Save in the bosom of a cold decay?
What violet of Summer's yester sway
Usurps these clouds to throne her slender moon?
Look on the wrinkling year, the shrunken way,
The wintry bier of all that gaudy shone,
And gather love ere loveliness wear pall,
If thou, when all is gone, wouldst still have all.

[The end]
Olive Tilford Dargan's poem: To Mirimond

________________________________________________



GO TO TOP OF SCREEN