Two separate divided silences, Which, brought together, would find loving voice; Two glances which together would rejoice In love, now lost like stars beyond dark trees; Two hands apart whose touch alone gives ease; Two bosoms which, heart-shrined with mutual flame, Would, meeting in one clasp, be made the same; Two souls, the shores wave-mocked of sundering seas:-- Such are we now. Ah! may our hope forecast Indeed one hour again, when on this stream Of darkened love once more the light shall gleam?-- An hour how slow to come, how quickly past,-- Which blooms and fades, and only leaves at last Faint as shed flowers, the attenuated dream. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GERANIUMS by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON NOT DEAD by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES PROPERZIA ROSSI by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS EXODUS FOR OREGON by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 83 by ALFRED TENNYSON |