MARIA! I have every good For thee wished many a time, Both sad and in a cheerful mood, But never yet in rhyme. To wish thee fairer is no need, More prudent, or more sprightly, Or more ingenious, or more freed From temper-flaws unsightly. What favour then not yet possessed Can I for thee require, In wedded love already blessed To thy whole heart's desire? None here is happy but in part; Full bliss is bliss divine; There dwells some wish in every heart, And doubtless one in thine. That wish, on some fair future day Which Fate shall brightly gild, ('Tis blameless, be it what it may) I wish it all fulfilled. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LAST REDOUBT by ALFRED AUSTIN EPITHALAMION MADE AT LINCOLNES INNE by JOHN DONNE PASSER MORTUUS EST by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY THE JESTER'S SERMON by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY THE DARKNESS OF EGYPT by MARIA ABDY |