Yes, yours, my love, is the right human face. I in my mind had waited for this long, Seeing the false and searching for the true, Then found you as a traveller finds a place Of welcome suddenly amid the wrong Valleys and rocks and twisting roads. But you, What shall I call you? A fountain in a waste, A well of water in a country dry, Or anything that's honest and good, an eye That makes the whole world seem bright. Your open heart, Simple with giving, gives the primal deed, The first good world, the blossom, the blowing seed, The hearth, the steadfast land, the wandering sea. Not beautiful or rare in every part. But like yourself, as they were meant to be | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO IMAGINATION (2) by EMILY JANE BRONTE A DEATH SONG by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR SONNET: 86 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A DESCRIPTION OF SUCH A ONE AS HE WOULD LOVE by THOMAS WYATT UNSUNG by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH PEACE AND SHEPHERD by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD TWELVE SONNETS: 12. AFTER BATTLE by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |