I WOULD that we had won of love More than the little coin thereof, And all the rest had flung away The gain supreme to keep; I would that we might understand All that in Eden God first planned, Ere ever men had learned to slay Or women learned to weep. But ah, that visions cannot last -- That perfect moments fade so fast, And men to pettiness return Who spoke with God erstwhile! I would that we lay side by side And that the curious moonbeams pried In vain at our closed lids to learn The secret of our smile. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SEPULCHRE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON SANDHILL PEOPLE by CARL SANDBURG GOD by GABRIEL ROMANOVITCH DERZHAVIN MADRIGAL: 1 by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE. 6. IN THE CEMETERY by THOMAS HARDY |