WE THAT were born, beloved, so far apart, So many seas and lands, The gods, one sudden day, joined heart to heart, Locked hands in hands, Distance relented and became our friend, And met, for our sakes, world's end with world's end. The earth was centred in one flowering plot Beneath thy feet, and all the rest was not. Now wouldst thou rend our nearness, and again Bring distance back, and place Poles and equators, mountain range and plain, Between me and thy face, Undoing what the gods divinely planned; Heart, canst thou part? hand, loose me from thy hand? Not twice the gods their slighted gifts bestow; Bethink thee well, beloved, ere thou dost go. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE STARLIGHT NIGHT by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS OUT OF THE VAST by AUGUSTUS WRIGHT BAMBERGER OTHER LITTLE SHIPS by EDNA BINTLIFF ASPIRATIONS: 10 by MATHILDE BLIND BELLS by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE MORTAL LOVER by EDWARD CARPENTER MEMORIAL by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ ON MY MOTHER'S FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY by MARGARET MILLER DAVIDSON |