WITH foolish fancy I deserted thee; I fain would search the whole world through, to learn If in it I perchance could love discern, That I might love embrace right-lovingly. I sought for love as far as eye could see, My hands extending at each door in turn, Begging them not my prayer for love to spurn -- Cold hate alone they laughing gave to me. And ever search'd I after love; yes, ever Search'd after love, but love discover'd never, And so I homeward went, with troubled thought; But thou wert there to welcome me again, And, ah, what in thy dear eye floated then @3That@1 was the sweet love I so long had sought. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNET, WRITTEN IN JANUARY 1817 by JOHN KEATS CREDO by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON THE RUINES OF TIME by EDMUND SPENSER THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS by MARIA ABDY SHIRK OR WORK? by GRACE BORDELON AGATE MR. CROMEK TO MR. STOTHARD by WILLIAM BLAKE MATCHIT MOODUS by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD DEMOCRITUS by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES FO'C'S'LE YARNS: 2D SERIES. DEDICATION by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN |