Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VI. Fancy. 1904. | | | | Poems of Sentiment: II. Life | | Perseverance | | Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) |
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IN facile natures fancies quickly grow, | |
| But such quick fancies have but little root. | |
| Soon the narcissus flowers and dies, but slow | |
| The tree whose blossoms shall mature to fruit. | |
| Grace is a moment’s happy feeling, Power | 5 |
| A life’s slow growth; and we for many an hour | |
| Must strain and toil, and wait and weep, if we | |
| The perfect fruit of all we are would see. | | | |
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