GIVE me no mansions ivory white, Nor palaces of pearl and gold; Give me a child for all delight, Just four years old. Give me no wings of rosy shine, Nor silken raiment, fold on fold; Give me a little boy all mine, Just four years old. Give me no gold and starry crown, Nor harps, nor palm-branches unrolled; Give me a nestling head of brown, Just four years old. Give me a cheek that's like the peach, Two arms to clasp me from the cold; And all my heaven's within my reach, Just four years old. Dear God, You give me from Your skies A little heaven, all mine, to hold, As Mary once her Paradise, Just four years old. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WIND IN A FROLIC by WILLIAM HOWITT TAPESTRY TREES by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) CRUCIFIXION TO THE WORLD BY THE CROSS OF CHRIST by ISAAC WATTS TO MISS KINDER, ON RECEIVING A NOTE DATED FEBRUARY 30TH by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD THE SECOND BROTHER; ACT 1, SCENE 1 by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES PSALM 89 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 34. REMINDING HER OF A PROMISE (2) by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |