1. while

  • A Little While I Fain Would Linger Yet

    A little while (my life is almost set!)
      I fain would pause along the downward way,
      Musing an hour in this sad sunset-ray,
    While, Sweet! our eyes with tender tears are wet:
    A little hour I fain would linger yet.

    A little while I fain would linger yet,
      All for love’s sake, for love that cannot tire;
      Though fervid youth be dead,...

    Paul Hamilton Hayne

  • To die — takes just a little while —

    To die — takes just a little while —

    They say it doesn't hurt —

    It's only fainter — by degrees —

    And then — it's out of sight —


    A darker Ribbon — for a Day —

    A Crape upon the Hat —

    And then the pretty sunshine comes —

    And helps us to forget —


    The absent — mystic —...