IF I had the time to find a place And sit me down full face to face With my better self, that can not show In my daily life that rushes so: It might be then I would see my soul Was stumbling still toward the shining goal, I might be nerved by the thought sublime. -- If I had the time! If I had the time to let my heart Speak out and take in my life a part, To look about and to stretch a hand To a comrade quartered in no-luck land; Ah, God! If I might but just sit still And hear the note of the whippoorwill, I think that my wish with God's would rhyme -- If I had the time! If I had the time to learn from you How much for comfort my word could do; And I told you then of my sudden will To kiss your feet when I did you ill; If the tears aback of the coldness feigned Could flow, and the wrong be quite explained, -- Brothers, the souls of us all would chime, If we had the time! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CHURCH OF BROU by MATTHEW ARNOLD THE LADY UNKNOWN by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK THE POOR MAN'S PIG by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE LORDS' MASQUE: THE SONG by THOMAS CAMPION TO HIS MUCH HONOURED GODFATHER, MASTER A. B. by ABRAHAM COWLEY |