English Poetry. William Watson. The Flight of Youth. Уильям Уотсон.

William Watson (Уильям Уотсон)

The Flight of Youth

Youth! ere thou be flown away.
Surely one last boon to-day
    Thou'lt bestow—
One last light of rapture give,
Rich and lordly fugitive!
    Ere thou go.

What, thou canst not? What, all spent?
All thy spells of ravishment
    Pow'rless now?
Gone thy magic out of date?
Gone, all gone that made thee great?—
    Follow thou!

William Watson’s other poems:

1. The Blind Summit
2. England and Her Colonies
3. On Exaggerated Deference to Foreign Literary Opinion
4. Mensis Lacrimarum
5. Scentless Flow’rs I Bring Thee

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Hartley Coleridge (Хартли Кольридж) The Flight Of Youth (“YOUTH, thou art fled, – but where are all the charms”)

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