| Higginson and Bigelow, comps. American Sonnets. 1891. | | | | The Lover’s Year | | By George Parsons Lathrop (1851–1898) |
| | | THOU art my morning, twilight, noon, and eve, | |
| My Summer and my Winter, Spring and Fall; | |
| For Nature left on thee a touch of all | |
| The moods that come to gladden or to grieve | |
| The heart of Time, with purpose to relieve | 5 |
| From lagging sameness. So do these forestall | |
| In thee such o’erheaped sweetnesses as pall | |
| Too swiftly, and the taster tasteless leave. | |
| Scenes that I love, to me always remain | |
| Beautiful, whether under summer’s sun | 10 |
| Beheld, or, storm-dark, stricken across with rain. | |
| So, through all humors thou ’rt the same, sweet one: | |
| Doubt not I love thee well in each, who see | |
| Thy constant change is changeful constancy. | | | | |
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