If I could have one shining wish Of all the starry host, Of all the wondrous Sisterhood This one I'd treasure most: That you should slip back from the skies And stand here by my side, As on that sunlit long ago When you became my bride, And I should hold you by the hand And read, -- God is so wise To give His choicest gift to men Through love-lit human eyes! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FIRESIDE by NATHANIEL COTTON OLNEY HYMNS: 1. WALKING WITH GOD by WILLIAM COWPER ON GEORGE HERBERT'S BOOK, THE TEMPLE, SENT TO A GENTLEWOMAN by RICHARD CRASHAW TO JOHN KEATS; SONNET by AMY LOWELL SONNET: THE RARITY OF GENIUS by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |