Jingles

Chapter 7: Love at Dawn

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About This Book

A compact collection of short lyrical poems and light verse that shifts between playful sketches and earnest meditations. Recurring subjects include love and courtship, reflections on youth and aging, solitude, and small-town or frontier life. Several pieces celebrate natural settings such as the sea and mountain landscapes, using vivid but plain diction. Some poems employ humor and character sketches to portray everyday figures, while others dwell on memory, loss, and the passage of time. The overall tone balances simple, rhythmic lines with reflective and occasionally wistful moods.

Love at Dawn

The fields are full of flowers,

The sky is very blue;

In these bright morning hours

I’m thinking, love, of you.

If I, with love and laughter,

Could drive away your tears,

I’d chance the whole hereafter

Eternity of years.

Life offers us but little,

So little we can lose;

My patience you but nettle

When you my love refuse;

Our happiness may vanish

Before the sun will set;

Would you our pleasure banish

And live but to regret?