'How I could love, if loved in like degree! What service can to this rich quest compare? To sail beyond the sunsets, and to see Those Western Isles that all have deem'd so fair, To breathe awhile in that diviner air, Love's coronal upon the brow of life, Love's kingdom won, Love's throne secure from strife! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BEARS AT RASPBERRY TIME by HAYDEN CARRUTH NO MATTER WHAT, AFTER ALL, AND THAT BEAUTIFUL WORD SO by HAYDEN CARRUTH DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 6. SUNSET IN THE TROPICS by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON THE REWARD by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON ON HUNTINGDON'S 'MIRANDA' by SIDNEY LANIER HYBRIDS OF WAR: A MORALITY POEM: 2. CAMBODIA by KAREN SWENSON |