Time & Brevity
The Linnet in November
From The Poets and the Poetry of the Century, ed. Alfred H. Miles
Time & Brevity
Late singer of a sunless day,
I know not if with pain
Or pleasure more, I hear thy lay
Renew its vernal strain.
As gleams of youth, when youth is o'er,
And bare the summer bowers.
Thy song brings back the years of yore,
And unreturning hours.
So was it once! So yet again
It never more will be!
Yet sing; and lend us in thy strain
A moment's youth with thee.
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Palgrave, Francis Turner. “The Linnet in November.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/palgrave/4/.
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Palgrave, Francis Turner. “The Linnet in November.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/palgrave/4/.
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