If Only – The Poetry Monster

by Alan Noakes

Yes the ‘if onlys’ seem to persist for ever

As hovering wraithlike used-up dreams.

‘if only ‘ this or that

On such and such a day

Had varied by an hour or an inch

Or something neglected had been done

Or that something done had been neglected

Then ‘perhaps’ the other might have been:

But then

‘perhaps’ and ‘if only’ are first cousins

Addicted to survival only in our minds.

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Poems in English

Resolution And Independence by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
Repentance by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
Remembrance Of by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
Power Of Music by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
Picture of Daniel in the Lion’s Den at Hamilton Palace by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
Personal Talk by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
On The Same Occasion by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
On The Final Submission Of The Tyrolese by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
On A Celebrated Event In Ancient History by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
O’erweening Statesmen Have Full Long Relied by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
O’er The Wide Earth, On Mountain And On Plain by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
Ode by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
Ode To Lycoris. May 1817 by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
Ode to Duty by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
Ode Composed On A May Morning by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
October, 1803 by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
Occasioned By The Battle Of Waterloo February 1816 by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
O Nightingale! Thou Surely Art by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth

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