by Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke
If the haven could be but known
Whereto my thoughts adrift
Now float.
If the heaven could but be shown
Whereto mine eyes I lift,
What note
Would ring out through the wilds of space?
What wide world's wonder jar
My heart,
At the daring that makes her face
Mine idol, worshipped afar,
Apart?
But her eyes like great stars of fire
Have burned their glance on me
Who wait,
And her lips like a god's sweet lyre
Have shaped for times to be
My fate.
O'er the tides that between us roll
We ve triumphed; they fret
Undone:
In tremulous deeps of the soul
Our lives and loves have met,
Are one.
Last updated June 03, 2017