You shall give to me, my friends, this gladsome gift, That I can keep and cherish and enjoy, Which will, when memories overwhelm me, lift Each troubled doubt which would my peace destroy. A promise of a love without an end Which you'll forever to each other hold, That never will with dross nor baseness blend But always gleam as doth the purest gold. For love 'twixt man and woman doth reflect A higher love which we believers know, And how can we that heavenly love expect If ever we this earthly love outgrow? For love is life and life is God, and all Harmoniously are blended into one, And when Death's angel blows the trumpet call Eternal life and love shall be begun. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FISH-LEAP FALL by ROBERT FROST FINALITY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON POETRY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON APPLES OF HESPERIDES by AMY LOWELL SONG FOR A VIOLA D'AMORE by AMY LOWELL FLEMING HELPHENSTINE by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON |