Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IF WE HAD THE TIME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poet's Biography First Line: If I had the time to find a place Last Line: If we had the time! Subject(s): God; Life; Soul; Tears; Time | ||||||||
IF I had the time to find a place And sit me down full face to face With my better self, that can not show In my daily life that rushes so: It might be then I would see my soul Was stumbling still toward the shining goal, I might be nerved by the thought sublime. -- If I had the time! If I had the time to let my heart Speak out and take in my life a part, To look about and to stretch a hand To a comrade quartered in no-luck land; Ah, God! If I might but just sit still And hear the note of the whippoorwill, I think that my wish with God's would rhyme -- If I had the time! If I had the time to learn from you How much for comfort my word could do; And I told you then of my sudden will To kiss your feet when I did you ill; If the tears aback of the coldness feigned Could flow, and the wrong be quite explained, -- Brothers, the souls of us all would chime, If we had the time! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELEVEN EYES: FINAL SECTION by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: COME OCTOBER by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: HOME by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN SLOWLY: I FREQUENTLY SLOWLY WISH by LYN HEJINIAN ALL THE DIFFICULT HOURS AND MINUTES by JANE HIRSHFIELD A DAY IS VAST by JANE HIRSHFIELD FROM THIS HEIGHT by TONY HOAGLAND BLACK SHEEP by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON |
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