AND has the earth lost its so spacious round, The sky its blue circumference above, That in this little chamber there is found Both earth and heaven -- my universe of love! All that my God can give me, or remove, Here sleeping, save myself, in mimic death. Sweet that in this small compass I behove To live their living and to breathe their breath! Almost I wish that, with one common sigh, We might resign all mundane care and strife, And seek together that transcendent sky, Where Father, Mother, Children, Husband, Wife, Together pant in everlasting life! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...APRIL'S LAMBS by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES NO BABY IN THE HOUSE by CLARA G. DOLLIVER SUNRISE AND SUNSET: 1. SUNRISE by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) OUR OLD CENTER-TOWN VERMONT MEETINGHOUSE by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY TO THE LAKES by WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL MARI MAGNO; OR TALES ON BOARD: INTRODUCTION by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH |