Poems (Blind)/Delight

by Mathilde Blind

For works with similar titles, see Delight.

DELIGHT.

Fleeter than a tone scarce born
    That melts away,
Sweeter than a dream of morn
    That shuns the day,
Swifter than a rainbow fading out of sight:
Sucked away as dewdrops by the burning light;
Or like birds or blossoms, takest thou thy flight—
Sunbeam of delight.