TO lie all night beside the loved one—how lovely! To hold in one's arms something so precious, so beautiful, Dear head and hair and lips and limbs that shrine eternity, Through scent and sense and breath and touch and love— Forgetting all but this one—all but this one. And then again to spend the night alone, to resume oneself— To sail out in the silent watches over the sleeping world, and drink of the intoxication of space, Calm, self-centred, to the great first One united; Over-looking the wide sleeping-grounds of Time—forms of the past, the future—comrades innumerable, Lovers possible, all safely eternally embosomed; Kissing them lightly on the lips, the forehead, Leaving them sleeping, Spending the night alone. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PENMAEN POOL by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS THE DAUGHTER OF MENDOZA by MIRABEAU BONAPARTE LAMAR KILLED AT THE FORD by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 5 by ALFRED TENNYSON THESE ENDURE by MARION H. ADDINGTON |