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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AMENDS, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poet's Biography First Line: If I were blind, / nor never knew the sweet green glory of the spring Last Line: Than this — your love and sleep? Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Death; God; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The | |||
If I were blind, Nor never knew the sweet green glory of the Spring, Still could I hear at dawn the lark, Thrush song at dusk, and stir of wing: Ah, who could be disconsolate When left so many a lovely thing! If I were dumb, And on mine ear fell lovéd melodies in vain, Could I not see the splendid sun And taste the cool of summer rain: And in my heart be memories That silence stirs to song again! If I were dead, Then what were left? Would you not coming o'er me weep; And kneeling by my narrow bed, All night a wide-eyed silence keep: — What then could man ask more of God Than this — your love and sleep? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY |
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