Seeing you have not come with me, nor spent <br />This day's suggestive beauty as we ought, <br />I have gone forth alone and been content <br />To make you mistress only of my thought. <br />And I have blessed the fate that was so kind <br />In my life's agitations to include <br />This moment's refuge where my sense can find <br />Refreshment, and my soul beatitude. <br />Oh, be my gentle love a little while! <br />Walk with me sometimes. Let me see you smile. <br />Watching some night under a wintry sky, <br />Before the charge, or on the bed of pain, <br />These blessed memories shall revive again <br />And be a power to cheer and fortify<br /><br />Alan Seeger<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-05-5/
