Again has Time his annual circle run,
And April ushers in my natal day:
Since first my infant eyes beheld the sun,
How many a year has swiftly roll'd away!
Full half my thread of life the Fates have spun;
What various colours does the web display!
Some dark, some brighter; ere the work be done
The sadder hues will overshade the gay.
Yet not to Melancholy will I yield;
Against Despondency and Discontent
Still Fortitude and Hope shall keep the field;
Swerving from thee, O Virtue! I repent;
Now! to repel Temptation I am steel'd;
To follow thee I'm resolutely bent.
Sonnet, Written On My Birth Day
Thomas Oldham
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Poem topics: away, dark, hope, life, sun, time, work, steel, field, year, follow, display, Valentine's Day, circle, april, april fools, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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