Too Late
Too late I bring my heart, too late ’tis yours;
Too late to bring the true love that endures;
Too long, unthrift, I gave it here and there,
Spent it in idle love and idle song;
Youth seemed so rich, with kisses all to spare—
Too late! too long!
Too late, O fairy woman; dreams and dust
Are in your hair, your face is dimly thrust
Among the flowers; and Time, that all forgets,
Even you forgets, and only I prolong
The face I love, with ache of vain regrets—
Too late! too long!
Too long I tarried, and too late I come,
O eyes and lips so strangely sealed and dumb:
My heart—what is it now, beloved, to you?
My love—that doth your holy silence wrong?
Ah! fairy face, star-crowned and chrismed with dew—
Too late! too long!
