Is it worth while to have breathed the earthly air?— Yes: even if the final end be near, And if pain's storms have clouded many a year, Yet there were early summers soft and fair. Passion hath twined for me full many a rare Chaplet,—and Harrow boyish skies were clear, And Oxford marigolds in marshy mere Shone radiant,—and the Cornish maiden-hair. And the great Northern waves did welcome me,— And, Alice, thou their Venus then wast born, Born from the eddies of the frothing sea, White-bodied as in the young world's sweet morn. It is worth while to have lived for thee,—for thee,— Though years on weary years have wailed forlorn. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE QUANGLE WANGLE'S HAT by EDWARD LEAR IN THE TWILIGHT by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 57. TRUE WOMAN, HER LOVE by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI SPRING SONG by JEAN ANTOINE DE BAIF TO DR. AIKIN ON HIS COMPLAINING THAT SHE NEGLECTED HIM by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |