Your face has lost
The clearness it once wore,
And your brow smooth and white
Its look of light;
Your eyes that were
So careless, are how deep with care!
O, what has done
This cruelty to you?
Is it only Time makes strange
Your look with change,
Or something more
Than the worst pang Time ever bore?--
Regret, regret!
So bitter that it changes
Bright youth to madness,
Poisoning mere sadness ...
O, vain glass that shows
Less than the bitterness the heart knows.
The Glass
John Frederick Freeman
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Poem topics: change, heart, light, lost, white, deep, bright, face, worst, bitter, strange, glass, youth, time, I love you, I miss you, regret, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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