I have not known a love equal to yearning; Nor any kiss, nor any arms' embracing So dear as their absence; youth in all its sweetness -- Mist and the shadows! There is no feast so wholesome yet as hunger; Tell me if the fruit trailing the blossom Rivals half with it? Oh, let the humming Bee in the orchard Feast; I will remember when the autumn Comes bearing all and bowing in full ripeness How the branches were in earlier summer Bursting in promise. If only flowers could ever stay unblown and Always live in promise for tomorrow! Love would be eternal if unproven -- Tearful is autumn. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MOSS ROSE by FRIEDRICH ADOLF KRUMMACHER THE VIRGIN'S SLUMBER SONG by JOSEPH FRANCIS CARLIN MACDONNELL A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE SOUL AND BODY by ANDREW MARVELL HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 6. YEUX GLAUQUES by EZRA POUND EPIPSYCHIDION by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 119 by ALFRED TENNYSON THE TRAGEDY by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM THE HUNTER AND THE MILKMAID by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER ON THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER, EMPEROR OF THE RUSSIAS by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD |