Affections are as thoughts to her, the measure of her hours; Her feelings have the fragrancy, the freshness, of young flowers; And lonely passions, changing oft, so fill her, she appears The image of themselves by turns,—the idol of past years!

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Affections are as thoughts to her, the measure of her hours; Her feelings have the fragrancy, the freshness, of young flowers; And lonely passions, changing oft, so fill her, she appears The image of themselves by turns,—the idol of past years!" in the context of "Edward Coote Pinkney, "A Health", st. 3, in Specimens of American Poetry, vol. 3 (Boston, 1829), p. 84" to mean that wisdom is timeless.