Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AMOUR DE VOYAGE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I was a man who could write you rhyme Last Line: And who in their senses would wish for more? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love Affairs; Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
AND I was a man who could write you rhyme (Just so much for you, nothing more), And you were the woman I loved for a time Loved for a little, and nothing more, We shall go our ways when the voyage is o'er, You with your beauty and I with my rhymes, With a dim remembrance rising at times (Only a memory, nothing more) Of a lovely face and some worthless rhymes. Meantime till our comedy reaches its end (It's comic ending, and nothing more) I shall live as your lover who loved as a friend Shall swear true love till Life be o'er. And you, you must make believe and attend, As the steamer throbs from shore to shore. And so, we shall pass the time for a little (Pass it in pleasure, and nothing more), For vows, alas! are sadly brittle, And each may forget the oaths that we swore. And have we not loved for an age, and age? And was I not yours from shore to shore? From landing-stage to landing-stage Did I not worship and kneel and adore? And what is a month in love but an age? And who in their senses would wish for more? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB FUZZY-WUZZY' (SOUDAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE) by RUDYARD KIPLING |
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