If there were any power in human love, <br />Or in th' intensest longing of the heart, <br />Then should the oceans and the lands that part <br />Ye from my sight all unprevailing prove, <br />Then should the yearning of my bosom bring <br />Ye here, through space and distance infinite; <br />And life 'gainst love should be a baffled thing, <br />And circumstance 'gainst will lose all its might. <br />Shall not a childless mother's misery <br />Conjure the earth with such a potent spell— <br />A charm so desperate—as to compel <br />Nature to yield to her great agony? <br />Can I not think of ye till ye arise, <br />Alive, alive, before my very eyes?<br /><br />Frances Anne Kemble<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if-there-were-any-power-in-human-love/
