In Memoriam A. H. H.: Is it, then, regret for buried time



Is it, then, regret for buried time
        That keenlier in sweet April wakes,
        And meets the year, and gives and takes
    The colours of the crescent prime?
    Not all: the songs, the stirring air,
        The life re-orient out of dust,
        Cry thro' the sense to hearten trust
    In that which made the world so fair.
    Not all regret: the face will shine
       Upon me, while I muse alone;
       And that dear voice, I once have known,
   Still speak to me of me and mine:

   Yet less of sorrow lives in me
       For days of happy commune dead;
       Less yearning for the friendship fled,
   Than some strong bond which is to be.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABBACDDCEFFE GHHG
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 648
Words 113
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 12, 4

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