SEE the rivers flowing Downwards to the sea, Pouring all their treasures Bountiful and free: Yet to help their giving Hidden springs arise; Or, if need be, showers Feed them from the skies! Watch the princely flowers Their rich fragrance spread, Load the air with perfumes, From their beauty shed: Yet their lavish spending Leaves them not in dearth, With fresh life replenished By their mother earth! Give thy heart's best treasures, -- From fair Nature learn; Give thy love -- and ask not, Wait not a return! And the more thou spendest From thy little store, With a double bounty God will give thee more. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EXHORTATION TO PRAYER by MARGARET MERCER IMPRESSIONS: LA FUITE DE LA LUNE by OSCAR WILDE INSCRIPTIONS: 2. FOR A STATUE OF CHAUCER AT WOODSTOCK by MARK AKENSIDE UNSEASONABLE SNOWS by ALFRED AUSTIN THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 26. ASKING FOR HER HEART. CHRISTMAS by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |