I WAS with thee in Heaven: I cannot tell If years or moments, so the sudden bliss, When first we found, then lost, us in a kiss, Abolished Time, abolished Earth and Hell, Left only Heaven. Then from our blue there fell The dagger's flash, and did not fall amiss, For nothing now can rob my life of this, — That once with thee in Heaven, all else is well. Us, undivided when man's vengeance came, God's half-forgives that doth not here divide; And, were this bitter whirl-blast fanged with flame, To me 't were summer, we being side by side: This granted, I God's mercy will not blame, For, given thy nearness, nothing is denied. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MANNERLY MARGERY, MILK AND ALE by JOHN SKELTON THE ALTAR STONE by RICHARD ALEXANDER ZEUS TOO IS A VICTIM by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS IDEOGRAM by ALFRED GOLDSWORTHY BAILEY THE GREAT BLACK CROW by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY TO A BIRD IN THE CITY by MATTHIAS BARR POLYHYMNIA: VERSES TO LORD NORREYS, SELECTION by WILLIAM BASSE |