1. @3Let us now sing of Love's delight, For he alone is lord to-night.@1 2. @3Some friendship between man and man prefer, But I th' affection between man and wife.@1 3. @3What good can be in life, Whereof no fruits appear?@1 1. @3Set is that tree in ill hour, That yields neither fruit nor flower.@1 2. @3How can man perpetual be, But in his own posterity?@1 Chorus. @3That pleasure is of all most bountiful and kind, That fades not straight, but leaves a living joy behind.@1 | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DEATH OF A PHOTOGRAPHER by KAREN SWENSON WAR IS KIND: 21 by STEPHEN CRANE YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE FIRST DAY: THE LEGEND OF RABBI BEN LEVY by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW |