O LOVE, is there aught I should fail to achieve for your sake? Your need would invest my frail hands with invincible power To tether the dawn and the darkness, to trample and break The mountains like sea-shells, and crush the fair moon like a flower, And drain the wide rivers as dew-drops and pluck from the skies The sunbeams like arrows, the stars like proud impotent eyes. O Love, is there aught I should fear to fulfil at your word? Your will my weak hands with such dauntless delight would endow To capture and tame the wild tempest to sing like a bird, And bend the swift lightning to fashion a crown for your brow, Unfurl the sealed triumph of Time like a foot-cloth outspread, And rend the cold silence that conquers the lips of the dead. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JOHNNY SPAIN'S WHITE HEIFER by HAYDEN CARRUTH NAMING FOR LOVE by HAYDEN CARRUTH A MAN'S VOCATION IS NOBODY'S BUSINESS by JAMES GALVIN WHAT WE SAID THE LIGHT SAID by JAMES GALVIN CLASS SONG (WHICH WILL BE SUNG ON THE 22ND OF FEBRUARY) by GEORGE SANTAYANA |