Poems

Chapter 71: SONG

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About This Book

A varied collection of lyric and narrative verse that moves between short songs, sonnets, rondels, and longer meditative pieces. Many poems use pastoral and seasonal imagery to celebrate fields, harvest, and the sensory life of the natural world while also acknowledging the hardships and dignity of rural labor. Recurring themes include love, absence, memory, and spiritual longing, treated with formal variety and musical language. The tone alternates between celebratory, elegiac, and reflective, blending vivid description with moral and emotional observation.

SONG

As the days

Go their ways;

And the months, and the years,

Bring their laughter and their tears,—

And their range

Of turn and change—

All the old,

Away we fold,—

With the moth,

And the dust;

Nothing loth

Since we must

Have the new!

As the days

Go their ways

One thing stays—

My love for you.