When buffeted and beaten by life's storms, When by the bitter cares of life oppressed, I want no surer haven than your arms, I want no sweeter heaven than your breast. When over my life's way there falls the blight Of sunless days, and nights of starless skies; Enough for me, the calm and steadfast light That softly shines within your loving eyes. The world, for me, and all the world can hold Is circled by your arms; for me there lies, Within the lights and shadows of your eyes, The only beauty that is never old. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A PSALM OF TRAVEL by GEORGE SANTAYANA AN ODE TO THE RAIN by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE OLD BRIDGE AT FLORENCE; SONNET by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW LOVE DISSEMBLED, FR. AS YOU LIKE IT by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE COMPARISON OF LOVE TO A STREAM FALLING FROM THE ALPS by THOMAS WYATT DECEMBER 31ST by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE |