TO lie all night beside the loved one—how lovely! To hold in one's arms something so precious, so beautiful, Dear head and hair and lips and limbs that shrine eternity, Through scent and sense and breath and touch and love— Forgetting all but this one—all but this one. And then again to spend the night alone, to resume oneself— To sail out in the silent watches over the sleeping world, and drink of the intoxication of space, Calm, self-centred, to the great first One united; Over-looking the wide sleeping-grounds of Time—forms of the past, the future—comrades innumerable, Lovers possible, all safely eternally embosomed; Kissing them lightly on the lips, the forehead, Leaving them sleeping, Spending the night alone. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HER DILEMMA; IN CHURCH by THOMAS HARDY MY AUNT by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES BLUEBEARD by RUTH FITCH BARLETT TWELVE SONNETS: 3. THE VALLEY ROSES by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE by FRANK GELETT BURGESS HEARTH SONG by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON KAZOO by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE WRITTEN IN A QUARREL (DELIVERY PREVENTED BY RECONCILIATION) by WILLIAM COWPER |