OUT of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come after it, -- so you ignore, So you make perfect the present, -- condense, In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment, Thought and feeling and soul and sense -- Merged in a moment which gives me at last You around me for once, you beneath me, above me -- Me -- sure that despite of time future, time past, -- This tick of our life-time's one moment you love me! How long such suspension may linger? Ah, Sweet -- The moment eternal -- just that and no more -- When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut and lips meet! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON BEING ASKED TO WRITE A POEM AGAINST THE WAR IN VIETNAM by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE LAMP OF LIFE by AMY LOWELL SURFACES AND MASKS; 4 by CLARENCE MAJOR THE NEW APOCRYPHA: BERENICE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS TO WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS ON TAGORE by MARIANNE MOORE |