When do you have many friends and when do they leave you according to the poem 'Solitude'?

By 'useless years' in the poem 'O Me! O Life', the poet means the times in life that feel meaningless or wasted. The poet also indicates the pointless lives we lead while trying to fulfill vain desires through meaningless struggles.

According to the poet, reading a book can give us new ideas and make us imaginative. Books can take us away from reality to an imaginary world. A book is similar to a magic box, which can surprise us with different things. And most importantly, books can become our best friend.

The speaker's advice to her own children would be to love both the mothers (the young and the old), just as both loved them.

When Mary went to bring the cattle home, the weather was very rough. There was wild western wind filled with mist and foam from the sea, and the western tide was rising along the shore.

The poet called time an 'Old Gipsy Man' in the poem 'Time, You Old Gipsy Man' as it has similarities with the gipsies. The gipsies wander from one place to another. Similarly, time goes on. It travels from one city to another and one age to another like an old gipsy man.

In the poem 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eveniing' the poet stopped by the woods because he was captivated by their beauty and tranquility. He stopped there on a snowy evening. To the poet, it was the darkest evening of the year.