Analyze passion; it resolves to this: A wild-rose, salty-wet with windy spray. Heart-on-the-sleeve and rhyming with a kiss Whose idyl lasted only for a day, Whose lyric may live longer on the lips, And if well-sung, within the hearts of others, Yet nothing more than the flood-tide that slips Over high-water-mark in breaker-smothers. Analyze love ... and you have something more Than ever chemist in his laboratory, Precipitated into golden ore Or Chaucer or Boccacio into story. For that alembic dare to death again And still once more return to earthly pain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AULD LANG SYNE by ROBERT BURNS THE FIELD MOUSE by WILLIAM SHARP EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 29. ALL NOT WORTH A REWARD by PHILIP AYRES SUNRISE AND SUNSET: 2. SUNSET by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) RETIREMENT: AN ODE by JAMES BEATTIE |