Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IF HE HAD KNOWN, by DESBORDES VALMORE First Line: If he had known what soul it was he wounded Last Line: If I had known? | ||||||||
IF he had known what soul it was he wounded, Could he have seen the tears wrung from the heart! Ah, if that heart, where thoughts too much abounded, To shape its thoughts to words, had kept the art! To change us now the very power would lack, Proud of the hopes which he away has thrown, So great a love he must have rendered back, If he had known. If he had known what might have been expected From a true soul that loving ardour fires, To mate with his he would have mine selected, And must have felt the love which he inspires. My downcast eyes perchance concealed the flame; Yet through their modest glance was nothing shown? Such secret well his heart and soul might claim, If he had known. If I myself had known to what a power One yields oneself by gazing on his eyes, I had not sought him every breathing hour, But would have borne my days to other skies. It is too late my life to rearray, My life, a rapturous hope, deceived and flown. You, who have robbed my hopes--will you not say, If I had known? | Other Poems of Interest...THE ROSES OF SAADI by DESBORDES VALMORE FOUR-LEAF CLOVER by ELLA (RHOADS) HIGGINSON VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1877 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 1 by EDWARD TAYLOR ON SICK LEAVE, 1916 by HAMILTON FISH ARMSTRONG A BALLADE OF COLLEGE GIRLS by F. R. BATCHELDER THE GIANTESS by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE THE YOUNG DEAD by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT ON THE CAUSE, CONSQUENCE AND CURE OF SPIRITUAL PRIDE by JOHN BYROM |
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