LOVE INCONSTANT
After April months and May
Love of birds will fly away.
After June light loves grown chilly
Part, though tarry rose and lily.
O alas! such loves should sunder,
They who made the world a wonder,
Raining from their honey throats
Golden notes and silver notes!
Love of birds will fly away.
After June light loves grown chilly
Part, though tarry rose and lily.
O alas! such loves should sunder,
They who made the world a wonder,
Raining from their honey throats
Golden notes and silver notes!
O in April what unrest
Stirs the swallow's sea-born breast?
For some love of old and golden,
Where pale orchards bloom unfolden:
For some silent heartstring stirred,
Some lost heaven remembered.
And the old dream calls him home,
Home by trackless skies and foam.
Stirs the swallow's sea-born breast?
For some love of old and golden,
Where pale orchards bloom unfolden:
For some silent heartstring stirred,
Some lost heaven remembered.
And the old dream calls him home,
Home by trackless skies and foam.
O alas, such things should be!
Cold as stone are he and she.
Empty gapes the nest and wide
They two planned with such sweet pride
The sweet nestlings flown as far
As the light-winged lost loves are.
Love, whose love endures, see then
How sweet Love is wronged again!
Cold as stone are he and she.
Empty gapes the nest and wide
They two planned with such sweet pride
The sweet nestlings flown as far
As the light-winged lost loves are.
Love, whose love endures, see then
How sweet Love is wronged again!
How these birds, from lark to sparrow,
Snap his bow and blunt his arrow!
Snap his bow and blunt his arrow!