Flame and Shadow/Eight O'Clock

by Sara Teasdale

For works with similar titles, see Eight O'Clock.

 

EIGHT O'CLOCK

Supper comes at five o'clock,
At six, the evening star,
My lover comes at eight o'clock—
But eight o'clock is far.

How could I bear my pain all day
Unless I watched to see
The clock-hands laboring to bring
Eight o'clock to me.