I CANNOT think that thou shouldst pass away, Whose life to mine is an eternal law, A piece of nature that can have no flaw, A new and certain sunrise every day; But, if thou art to be another ray About the Sun of Life, and art to live Free from all of thee that was fugitive, The debt of Love I will more fully pay, Not downcast with the thought of thee so high, But rather raised to be a nobler man, And more divine in my humanity, As knowing that the waiting eyes which scan My life are lighted by a purer being, And ask meek, calm-browed deeds, with it agreeing. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TROILUS AND CRESSIDA: SONG by JOHN DRYDEN THE WORLD-SOUL by RALPH WALDO EMERSON A TEAMSTER'S FAREWELL by CARL SANDBURG SONNET TO THE HUNGARIAN NATION by MATTHEW ARNOLD COME UP HIGHER by MINNIE KEITH BAILEY SAW YE JOHNNIE COMIN'? by JOANNA BAILLIE |