MARIA! I have every good For thee wished many a time, Both sad and in a cheerful mood, But never yet in rhyme. To wish thee fairer is no need, More prudent, or more sprightly, Or more ingenious, or more freed From temper-flaws unsightly. What favour then not yet possessed Can I for thee require, In wedded love already blessed To thy whole heart's desire? None here is happy but in part; Full bliss is bliss divine; There dwells some wish in every heart, And doubtless one in thine. That wish, on some fair future day Which Fate shall brightly gild, ('Tis blameless, be it what it may) I wish it all fulfilled. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OF THE WARS IN IRELAND by JOHN HARRINGTON MIDWINTER BLUES by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF by ISAAC WATTS NOW PRECEDENT SONGS, FAREWELL by WALT WHITMAN THE MORAL FABLES: THE TALE OF THE COCK, AND THE JEWEL by AESOP REMINISCENCE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH EPIGRAM by DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS TWELVE SONNETS: 11. FIRST, BATTLE; THEN, WOMAN by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |