Representative Poetry Online
On this day: January 10th
Random Poem of the Day
1But only three in all God’s universe
2Have heard this word thou hast said,—Himself, beside
3Thee speaking, and me listening! and replied
4One of us . . . that was God, . . . and laid the curse
6My sight from seeing thee,—that if I had died,
8Less absolute exclusion. “Nay” is worse
9From God than from all others, O my friend!
10Men could not part us with their worldly jars,
11Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend;
12Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars:
13And, heaven being rolled between us at the end,
14We should but vow the faster for the stars.
Notes
5] to amerce: to punish arbitrarily (a legal term) Back to Line
7] death-weights: small weights placed upon the eyes of a dead person, to keep the eyes closed Back to Line