Song by Marie Van Vorst (1900)
As days, months, and years pass through laughter, tears, change, and renewal, the speaker accepts that old things must be folded away with moth and dust. Amid all that alters, one constant remains: the speaker’s love for the beloved.
By Marie Van Vorst · First published 1900 · Genre: Lyric Poetry, Love Poetry, Romantic Poetry · 120 words
First lines
As the days / Go their ways; / And the months, and the years, / Bring their laughter and their tears, -- / And their range / Of turn and change -- / All the old, / Away we fold, -- / With the moth, / And the dust; / Nothing loth / Since we must / Have the new! / As the days / Go their ways / One thing stays -- / My love for you.
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Song is listed on Textopian as a poem by Marie Van Vorst, dated 1900 CE.
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Marie Van Vorst
- Date: 1900 CE
- Language: English
- Genres: Lyric Poetry, Love Poetry, Romantic Poetry, Reflective Poetry, Philosophical Poetry
- Length: 120 words
- Structure: 1 section, 1 paragraphs
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Genres
- Lyric Poetry — The work is a short, musical verse focused on expressing a concentrated personal feeling rather than telling a narrative.
- Love Poetry — Its central subject is the speaker's enduring love for an addressed beloved: 'One thing stays -- My love for you.'
- Romantic Poetry — The poem treats love as a lasting emotional constant amid time, change, loss, and renewal.
- Reflective Poetry — It meditates on the passage of days, months, and years, and on how people relinquish the old to accept the new.
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fiction · literary fiction · romance · social drama · early twentieth century · American literature · women's fiction · love · marriage · family relationships · social class · society