dots-menu
×

Home  »  The World’s Best Poetry  »  Light

Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

II. Love’s Nature

Light

Francis William Bourdillon (1852–1921)

THE NIGHT has a thousand eyes,

The day but one;

Yet the light of the bright world dies

With the dying sun.

The mind has a thousand eyes,

And the heart but one;

Yet the light of a whole life dies

When its love is done.