Time & Brevity
Change
From A Century of Roundels (1883)
Time & Brevity
But now life’s face beholden
Seemed bright as heaven’s bare brow
With hope of gifts withholden
But now.
From time’s full-flowering bough
Each bud spake bloom to embolden
Love’s heart, and seal his vow.
Joy’s eyes grew deep with olden
Dreams, born he wist not how;
Thought’s meanest garb was golden;
But now!
Cite this poem
MLA
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “Change.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/640/.
Chicago
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. “Change.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/swinburne/640/.
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