Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | | | Poems of Home: I. About Children | | Boyhood | | Washington Allston (1779–1843) |
| | | AH, then how sweetly closed those crowded days! | |
| The minutes parting one by one, like rays | |
| That fade upon a summer’s eve. | |
| But O, what charm or magic numbers | |
| Can give me back the gentle slumbers | 5 |
| Those weary, happy days did leave? | |
| When by my bed I saw my mother kneel, | |
| And with her blessing took her nightly kiss; | |
| Whatever time destroys, he cannot this;— | |
| E’en now that nameless kiss I feel. | 10 | | | |
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