SO SWEET LOVE SEEMED (1894) So sweet love seemed that April morn, When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change. But I can tell let truth be told That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be. And in the end 'twill come to pass His little spring, that sweet we found, MELANCHOLIA (1904) 5 10 15 The sickness of desire, that in dark days Nor but in sleep findeth a cure for care. Splendid for others' eyes if not for thee: fled; If they delight thee not, 'tis thou art dead. But is there anything Beyond? This life cannot be All, they swear, 5 10 We darkly know, by Faith we cry, And there (they trust) there swimmeth Who swam ere rivers were begun, Oh! never fly conceals a hook, Fish say, in the Eternal Brook; 20 25 Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. And think, away, this heart, all evil shed A pulse in the eternal mind, no less 10 Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, And, flinging off youth's happy promise, flies 5 Up to some breach, despising earthly things, And, in contempt of hell and heaven, dies, Rather than bear some yoke of priests or kings. In hearts at peace, under an English Our joys are not of heaven nor earth, but heaven. man's: |