CAN Life be a Blessing, Or worth the possessing, Can Life be a blessing if Love were away? Ah no! though our Love all Night keep us waking, And though he torment us with Cares all the Day, Yet he sweetens he sweetens our Pains in the taking, There's an Hour at the last, there's an Hour to repay. 2 In ev'ry possessing, The ravishing Blessing, In ev'ry possessing the Fruit of our Pain, Poor Lovers forget long Ages of Anguish, What e're they have suffer'd and done to obtain; 'Tis a Pleasure, a Pleasure to sigh and to languish, When we hope, when we hope to be happy again. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BUT NOT TO ME by SARA TEASDALE TURTLE SOUP by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON THE TRAGEDY OF VALENTINIAN: THE POWER OF LOVE by JOHN FLETCHER ON THE DEATH OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN by PHILIP FRENEAU WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUNKIN by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY A SOUL; A STUDY by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI FIELD AMBULANCE IN RETREAT; VIA DOLOROSA, VIA SACRA by MAY SINCLAIR |