SOON our friends perish,
Soon all we cherish
Fades as days darken – goes as flowers go.
Soon in December
Over an ember,
Lonely we hearken, as loud winds blow.
(Robert Louis Stevenson)
More Poetry from Robert Louis Stevenson:
- After Reading Antony and Cleopatra (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
- Apologetic Postscript Of A Year Later (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
- De Coenatione Micae (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
- Farewell to the Farm (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
- Henry James (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
- In The Green And Gallant Spring (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)