If I had known you--oh, if I had known you!
In other days when youth and love were strong,
I would have raised a temple to enthrone you
On some fair pinnacle of cloudless song.
If you had touched me then with your dear laughter,
As now its echo smites me in my grief,
I would have given my soul to you, and after
Lived in my love, grown old in my belief.
If you had loved me,--oh, you would have loved me!
Earth would have worshipped us, its seers sublime,
My song had been a psalm, and Saints had proved me
Prophet and priest, your poet for all time.
If I Had Known You
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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Poem topics: I love you, grief, laughter, time, dear, soul, earth, strong, prophet, belief, poet, sublime, youth, song, love, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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