Were you to cross the world, my dear,
To work or love or fight,
I could be calm and wistful here,
And close my eyes at night.
It were a sweet and gallant pain
To be a sea apart;
But, oh, to have you down the lane
Is bitter to my heart.
Distance
Dorothy Parker
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Poem topics: I love you, heart, night, pain, sea, work, world, dear, sweet, fight, bitter, love, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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