Sunny hair and eyes of wonder, Baby-lips apart, Vivid mother-breast, whereunder Laughs a childish heart -- What have you to do with learning Wiser bliss or woe? Take our gold; the cost of earning You shall never know. You shall joy as for another, Find it strange to weep, Play at being wife and mother, Dream, and fall asleep; All we toil for, all we doubt of, All we yearn to see, All our hopes have sneered us out of -- You shall prove, and be. You shall purify deceiving With a glad disdain, Beautifully unbelieving Meet the eyes of pain, Dance through hells undreamed-of, bringing Benefits unguessed: Unto shame, a sound of singing, Unto passion, rest. Sunny hair and eyes of wonder, Baby-lips apart, Vivid mother-breast, whereunder Laughs a childish heart, Soul unsinful, unforgiven, Voice of dawn and dew -- God one morning, glad of heaven, Laughed -- and that was you! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MARMOZET by HILAIRE BELLOC INEVITABLY (2) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON |