WOULD I could cast a sail on the water Where many a king has gone And many a king's daughter, And alight at the comely trees and the lawn, The playing upon pipes and the dancing, And learn that the best thing is To change my loves while dancing And pay but a kiss for a kiss. I would find by the edge of that water The collar-bone of a hare Worn thin by the lapping of water, And pierce it through with a gimlet, and stare At the old bitter world where they marry in churches, And laugh over the untroubled water At all who marry in churches, Through the white thin bone of a hare. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PSALM 136 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE SONNET: 14. ON THE RELIGIOUS MEMORY OF CATHERINE THOMASON by JOHN MILTON PROMISES LIKE A PIE-CRUST by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI ENGLAND AND AMERICA IN 1782 by ALFRED TENNYSON PSALM 90 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE THE WEDDING FEAST: 2 by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH THE RING AND THE BOOK: BOOK 7. POMPILIA by ROBERT BROWNING OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 19. ELEGIAC VERSE: THE SECOND EPIGRAM by THOMAS CAMPION TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. IN AN OLD QUARRY by EDWARD CARPENTER |