Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
Poems of Home: IV. YouthTo Youth
Walter Savage Landor (17751864)W
With wing at either shoulder,
And smile that never left thy mouth
Until the Hours grew colder:
That thou and I must part;
I doubted it; I felt no fear,
No weight upon the heart.
And rolled it off again;
So, if there ever was a sigh,
’T was not a sigh of pain.
Returnest when the hand
Of gentle Sleep waves o’er my brow
His poppy-crested wand;
Then lips once pressed invite;
But sleep hath given a silent sign,
And both, alas! take flight.