If you could sit with me beside the sea to-day,
And whisper with me sweetest dreamings o'er and o'er;
I think I should not find the clouds so dim and gray,
And not so loud the waves complaining at the shore.
If you could sit with me upon the shore to-day,
And hold my hand in yours as in the days of old,
I think I should not mind the chill baptismal spray,
Nor find my hand and heart and all the world so cold.
If you could walk with me upon the strand to-day,
And tell me that my longing love had won your own,
I think all my sad thoughts would then be put away,
And I could give back laughter for the Ocean's moan!
Longing
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Poem topics: I love you, away, heart, laughter, ocean, sad, sea, walk, world, mind, cold, whisper, hold, love, shore, Valentine's Day, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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