<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342055" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Recollections</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Years upon years, as a course of clouds that thicken<br>Thronging the ways of the wind that shifts and veers,<br>Pass, and the flames of remembered fires requicken<br> Years upon years.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Surely the thought in a man's heart hopes or fears<br>Now that forgetfulness needs must here have stricken<br>Anguish, and sweetened the sealed-up springs of tears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, but the strength of regrets that strain and sicken,<br>Yearning for love that the veil of death endears,<br>Slackens not wing for the wings of years that quicken -<br> Years upon years.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Years upon years, and the flame of love's high altar<br>Trembles and sinks, and the sense of listening ears<br>Heeds not the sound that it heard of love's blithe psalter<br> Years upon years.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only the sense of a heart that hearkens hears,<br>Louder than dreams that assail and doubts that palter,<br>Sorrow that slept and that wakes ere sundawn peers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wakes, that the heart may behold, and yet not falter,<br>Faces of children as stars unknown of, spheres<br>Seen but of love, that endures though all things alter,<br> Years upon years.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Years upon years, as a watch by night that passes,<br>Pass, and the light of their eyes is fire that sears<br>Slowly the hopes of the fruit that life amasses<br> Years upon years.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pale as the glimmer of stars on moorland meres<br>Lighten the shadows reverberate from the glasses<br>Held in their hands as they pass among their peers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lights that are shadows, as ghosts on graveyard grasses,<br>Moving on paths that the moon of memory cheers,<br>Shew but as mists over cloudy mountain passes<br> Years upon years.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Algernon+Charles+Swinburne">Algernon Charles Swinburne</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342055" data-title="Recollections de Algernon Charles Swinburne" data-description="I. Years upon years, as a course of clouds that thicken Thronging the ways of the wind that shifts and veers, Pass, and the flames of remembered fires requicken Years upon years. Surely the thought in a man's heart hopes or fears Now that forge..."></div> </div> </div>

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