Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poet's Biography First Line: If I could love, I'd find me out Last Line: Am poor, and cannot love. Subject(s): Love | ||||||||
IF I could love, I'd find me out A roguish, laughing eye, A cheek to blush, a lip to pout, A pure, kind heart, to sigh. A fairy hand, to touch and glance, From note to note with glee, A fairy foot to trip the dance And lead it down with me. A soul to share in all my fun, And feel for all my woes, And as our little life should run To take it as it goes. And O, when follies all have fled And solemn thoughts shall rise, To soothe me on my dying bed And meet me in the skies. Such thoughts are vain, too vain --yet why Should you such thoughts reprove -- O pity, pity me, for I Am poor, and cannot love. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD TO A FRIEND by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD |
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