Two poems for you. The Yadu is a dry, brown view of the passing and the approaching of the seasons, and the other about Daffodils.
Daffodils are beautiful flowers that bloom early spring. They come as the harbinger of spring but leave before spring finishes its floral symphony. Robert Herrick compares us to this introductory work of nature but exits the poem with finality.
To Daffodils
BY ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674)
Fair Daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon;
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attain’d his noon.
Stay, stay,
Until the hasting day
Has run
But to the even-song;
And, having pray’d together, we
Will go with you along.
We have short time to stay, as you,
We have as short a spring;
As quick a growth to meet decay,
As you, or anything.
We die
As your hours do, and dry
Away,
Like to the summer’s rain;
Or as the pearls of morning’s dew,
Ne’er to be found again.
