Flower of the world, bright angel, single friend! I never asked of Heaven thou shouldst love me; As well ask Heaven's self that spreads above me With all his stars about my head to bend. It is enough my spirit may ascend And clasp the good whence nothing can remove me; Enough, if faith and hope and love approve me, And make me worthy of the blessed end. And as a pilgrim from the path withdraws, Seeing Christ carven on the holy rood, And breathes an AVE in the solitude, So will I stop and pray -- for I have cause -- And in all crossways of my thinking pause Before thine image, saying: God is good. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LONG JOHN BROWN AND LITTLE MARY BELL by WILLIAM BLAKE THE ROMANCE OF THE SWAN'S NEST by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 4. HER TRIUMPH by BEN JONSON AN HYMN IN HONOUR OF BEAUTY by EDMUND SPENSER TO THE QUEEN by ALFRED TENNYSON SMOKE IN WINTER by HENRY DAVID THOREAU |