I SHALL not care if I shall live no more, As men know life, as I myself have known. The waves that race so hard to reach the shore -- They break, and backward to their deep are thrown. They are not, yet they are -- become the Sea ... I lose my life, but Life will not lose me! I shall not care if I shall love no more, As time knows love, and, ah, as I have known! The fire goes out and open lies the door When summer's high ascendant sun has shone ... My little fire of love burned bright, burned free -- How greater, midst the Sun of Love to be! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BRACELET: TO JULIA by ROBERT HERRICK JAZZONIA by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES AN HORATIAN ODE UPON CROMWELL'S RETURN FROM IRELAND by ANDREW MARVELL ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 14 by PHILIP SIDNEY A CLEAR MIDNIGHT by WALT WHITMAN THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 10. THE PALATINE by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER |