Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | | | Poems of Friendship | | “Too late I stayed” | | William Robert Spencer (1770–1834) |
| | | TOO late I stayed,—forgive the crime! | |
| Unheeded flew the hours: | |
| How noiseless falls the foot of Time | |
| That only treads on flowers! | |
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| And who, with clear account, remarks | 5 |
| The ebbings of this glass, | |
| When all its sands are diamond sparks, | |
| That dazzle as they pass? | |
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| O, who to sober measurement | |
| Time’s happy swiftness brings, | 10 |
| When birds of paradise have lent | |
| Their plumage to his wings? | | | | |
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