NOT ours the vows of such as plight Their troth in sunny weather, While leaves are green and skies are bright, To walk on flowers together. But we have loved as those who tread The thorny path of sorrow, With clouds above, and cause to dread Yet deeper gloom to-morrow. That thorny path, those stormy skies, Have drawn our spirits nearer; And rendered us, by sorrow's ties, Each to the other dearer. Love, born in hours of joy and mirth, With mirth and joy may perish; That to which darker hours gave birth Still more and more we cherish. It looks beyond the clouds of time, And through death's shadowy portal; Made by adversity sublime, By faith and hope immortal. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THYESTES, ACT 2: CHORUS by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA THE WORLD (1) by HENRY VAUGHAN IN DEFENSE OF YOUTH by ROBBINS WOLCOTT BARSTOW VERSES TO HER WHO IS JUSTLY ENTITLED TO THEM by BERNARD BARTON PSALM 50 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE |