When your joys are of the sweetest And your heart is light and free; When your griefs are skimming fleetest, Love, one moment think of me.
Joshua Henry Jones Jr.
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- A Wish, Poems of the Four Seas (1921); Complete opening stanza, one sentence. Entire sixteen-line poem read on Academy of American Poets page and1921 publication confirmed. Public domain.
- A Wish, Poems of the Four Seas (1921)
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