English Poetry. Richard Watson Gilder. The New Day. Part 4. 7. Song (Years have flown since I knew thee first). Ричард Уотсон Гилдер.

Richard Watson Gilder (Ричард Уотсон Гилдер)

The New Day. Part 4. 7. Song (Years have flown since I knew thee first)

Years have flown since I knew thee first,
And I know thee as water is known of thirst;
Yet I knew thee of old at the first sweet sight,
And thou art strange to me, Love, to-night. 

Richard Watson Gilder’s other poems:

1. The New Day. Part 3. 30. The Sower
2. The New Day. Part 4. 11. “O Mighty River, Triumphing to the Sea”
3. The New Day. Part 4. 12. “My Songs Are All of Thee, What Tho’ I Sing”
4. The New Day. Part 3. 4. “What Would I Win Thee To?”
5. The New Day. Part 3. 15. Listening to Music

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