WE have a bed, and a baby too, My wife! We have work besides, we have work for two, And we have the sun, and the wind, and the rain, And we only need one little thing more, To be as free as the birds that soar: Only time. When we go through the fields on the Sunday morn, My child, And far and away o'er the bending corn, We see the swarming swallows flash, Then we only need a bit of a dress, To have the birds' bright loveliness: Only time. The storm is gathering black as jet, Feel the poor. Only a little eternity yet; We need nothing else, my wife, my child, Except all things through us that thrive, To be bold as the birds through the air that drive: Only time! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT KENNEBUNKPORT by LOUIS UNTERMEYER 1914: 5. THE SOLDIER by RUPERT BROOKE VICTORY BELLS by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND by REGINALD HEBER THE FLIGHT OF THE WAR-EAGLE by OBADIAH CYRUS AURINGER THRENODY by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |