Explore "Some Verses: Sonnets: THE EVERLASTING SNOWS" by Helen Hay Whitney on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
And shall it be that these undaunted snows / That poise so lightly on the mountains' crest -- / A lily laid to cheer its lonely breast -- / Shall their chill smile still face the wind, that blows / Across the field whereon no blossom grows, / And light the land where no gay life may rest / Save glowing hasty fingers of the West, / When our two hearts lie cold beneath the rose? / These silver flakes of ancient hoary frost, / Surviving all our joys' supremest powers, / And though the petals of your lips be lost / And gone the summer of your golden head, / This pale eternal growth of winter's flowers / Shall still live on -- though our sweet love be dead.