Resignation
1775-1864
WHY, why repine, my pensive friend,
At pleasures slipp'd away?
Some the stern Fates will never lend,
And all refuse to stay.
I see the rainbow in the sky,
The dew upon the grass;
I see them, and I ask not why
They glimmer or they pass.
With folded arms I linger not
To call them back; 'twere vain:
In this, or in some other spot,
I know they'll shine again.
DayPoems Poem No. 515
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/515.html">Resignation by Walter Savage Landor</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
Timothy Bovee, editor
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