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Poem by Richard Watson Gilder


The New Day. Part 4. 7. Song (Years have flown since I knew thee first)


Years have flown since I knew thee first,
And I know thee as water is known of thirst;
Yet I knew thee of old at the first sweet sight,
And thou art strange to me, Love, to-night. 



Richard Watson Gilder


Richard Watson Gilder's other poems:
  1. The New Day. Part 4. 17. “He Knows Not the Path of Duty”
  2. The New Day. Part 3. 12. Denial
  3. The New Day. Part 3. 19. Thistle-Down
  4. The New Day. Part 4. 4. Song (Not from the whole wide world I chose thee)
  5. The New Day. Part 3. 22. The Lover's Lord and Master


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