BECAUSE we are shut out from light, Each of the other's look and smile; Because the arms' and lips' delight Are past and dead, a weary while; Because the dawn, that joy has brought, Brings now but certainty of pain, Nothing for you and me has bought The right to live our lives in vain. Take not away the only lure That leads me on my lonely way, To know you noble, sweet, and pure, Great in least service, day by day. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FIRST BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 17. SIC TRANSIT by THOMAS CAMPION MUTABILITY (2) by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 8. THE EVICTION by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 53. ALLAH-AL-WAKIL by EDWIN ARNOLD THE HWOMESTEAD by WILLIAM BARNES SOME SWEET DAY by LEWIS J. BATES THE FIRST SNOW by J. B. BENTON ANOTHER JOURNEY FROM BETHUNE TO CUINCHY by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE PORCH by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH |