When you, my Dear, are away, away,
How wearily goes the creeping day.
A year drags after morning, and night
Starts another year of candle light.
O Pausing Sun and Lingering Moon!
Grant me, I beg of you, this boon.
Whirl round the earth as never sun
Has his diurnal journey run.
And, Moon, slip past the ladders of air
In a single flash, while your streaming hair
Catches the stars and pulls them down
To shine on some slumbering Chinese town.
O Kindly Sun! Understanding Moon!
Bring evening to crowd the footsteps of noon.
But when that long awaited day
Hangs ripe in the heavens, your voyaging stay.
Be morning, O Sun! with the lark in song,
Be afternoon for ages long.
And, Moon, let you and your lesser lights
Watch over a century of nights.
A beautiful poem 'But when that long awaited day Hangs ripe in the heavens, your voyaging stay.' is a very nice quote. Thanks for sharing and congrats.
let you and your lesser lights Watch over a century of nights.
A catching poem on the dragging time when we are awaiting somebody.
The longing for the dear one prolongs the passing of time. A beautifully conceived sweet little song well deserving classic poem of the day.
Wow! I love it! Amy it creates imaginative emotions of longing. Lovely!
WOnderful poem with fantastic line: And, Moon, let you and your lesser lights Watch over a century of nights.
The poem is really fascinating and as far as it rhyme scheme is concerned that is superb. Thanks for sharing such piece of literature.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
A well written poem. Thanks for sharing.