I SAW you, I held you, And surely I heard you: But you were as far as any man living could be. Though sometimes I have seen you, And touched you and heard you, As together we walked and your sleeve now and then brushed mine; Yet were you then Farther, farther Than with body's absence— But who walks with you now while your thoughts are here and brush mine? The slow waters Of three oceans, And the change of seasons, Between us are but as a new-leafy hawthorn hedge, And I see you And hold you:— But are you yet living, Or come you now nearer than any man living may be? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WAR IS KIND: 23 by STEPHEN CRANE CLEOMENS, OR THE SPARTAN HERO: SONG by JOHN DRYDEN BOSTON COMMON: 1630 by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES THE WARNING by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW A SONNET. ON THE PICTURE OF CAVALIER GUARINI PAINTED BY BORGIANNI by PHILIP AYRES |