LOVE said nay, while Hope kept saying All his sweetest say, Hope so keen to start a-maying! -- Love said nay. Love was bent to watch and pray; Long the watching, long the praying; Hope grew drowsy, pale and grey. Hope in dreams set off a-straying, All his dream - world flushed by May; While unslumbering, praying, weighing, Love said nay. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BLIND by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE HIPPOPOTAMUS by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT THE CRADLE SONG OF THE POOR by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER RELEASE by GLADYS NAOMI ARNOLD THE EMBRYO by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE WELL by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN NEW DUET: BOWLES AND CAMPBELL by GEORGE GORDON BYRON |