Pain's fiery lesson was to teach us this: To teach the perfect truth to either soul,— That now, beside us as the swift months roll, Nought may disturb, no frailty mar, our bliss. Beneath the stars again our spirits kiss: Again the smarting puzzled hearts are whole: Again with gladdened lips Love's crystal bowl We touch;—and know how great a thing Love is. Heart of my heart, soul of my soul indeed, Wast thou in sorrow, and did I not bleed? Mind of my mind, were issues vast at stake, Bewildering thee,—and did not my mind ache? Spirit that crownest mine beyond all loss, Out of one tree God hewed for each a cross. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DEVASTATION by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 18 by THOMAS CAMPION O BLACK AND UNKNOWN BARDS by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON THE DARK HILLS by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON BISHOP HATTO [AND THE RATS] by ROBERT SOUTHEY THE LAST INVOCATION by WALT WHITMAN EXTEMPORE EFFUSION UPON THE DEATH OF JAMES HOGG by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |