Time & Brevity
Leavetaking
From A Hundred Poems (1911)
Time & Brevity
Pass, thou wild light,
Wild light on peaks that so
Grieve to let go
The day.
Lovely thy tarrying, lovely too is night—
Pass thou away.
Pass, thou wild heart,
Wild heart of youth that still
Hast half a will
To stay.
I grow too old a comrade, let us part.
Pass thou away.
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MLA
Watson, William. “Leavetaking.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/watson/150/.
Chicago
Watson, William. “Leavetaking.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/watson/150/.
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