Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Thomas R. Lounsbury, ed. (1838–1915). Yale Book of American Verse. 1912.

Edward Rowland Sill 1841–1887

Edward Rowland Sill

209 Momentous Words

WHAT spiteful chance steals unawares

Wherever lovers come,

And trips the nimblest brain and scares

The bravest feelings dumb?

We had one minute at the gate,

Before the others came;

To-morrow it would be too late,

And whose would be the blame!

I gazed at her, she glanced at me;

Alas! the time sped by:

“How warm it is to-day!” said she;

“It looks like rain,” said I.