My Desire

Fate has given me many a gift

To which men most aspire,

Lovely, precious and costly things,

But not my heart’s desire.

Many a man has a secret dream

Of where his soul would be,

Mine is a low verandah’d house

In a tope beside the sea.

Over the roof tall palms should wave,

Swaying from side to side,

Every night we should fall asleep

To the rhythm of the tide.

The dawn should be gay with song of birds,

And the stir of fluttering wings.

Surely the joy of life is hid

In simple and tender things!

At eve the waves would shimmer with gold

In the rosy sunset rays,

Emerald velvet flats of rice

Would rest the landward gaze.

A boat must rock at the laterite steps

In a reef-protected pool,

For we should sail through the starlit night

When the winds were calm and cool.

I am so tired of all this world,

Its folly and fret and care.

Find me a little scented home

Amongst thy loosened hair.

Give me a soft and secret place

Against thine amber breast,

Where, hidden away from all mankind,

My soul may come to rest.

Many a man has a secret dream

Of where his life might be;

Mine is a lovely, lonely place

With sunshine and the sea.

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Poems in English 

• Autumn Leaves by Thomas J Camp by Poetry In English
• You by Thonda Sri Indrani by Poetry In English
• You Will Forget! by Timothy Thomas Fortune by Poetry In English
• Written at Stonehenge by Thomas Warton by Poetry In English
• Words Of Love Forevermore by Timothy Thomas Fortune by Poetry In English
• Why? by Tiffany Ann Monroe by Poetry In English
• While Summer Suns O’er the Gay Prospect Play’d by Thomas Warton by Poetry In English
• What Is Woman But A Song! by Timothy Thomas Fortune by Poetry In English
• We are Africa by Timileyin Gabriel Olajuwon by Poetry In English
• Virgule by Thomas Lux by Poetry In English
• Verses on Sir Joshua Reynold’s Painted Window at New College, Oxford by Thomas Warton by Poetry In English
• Vagueness Petrified by Thonda Sri Indrani by Poetry In English
• Unlike, For Example, The Sound Of A Riptooth Saw by Thomas Lux by Poetry In English
• Town Planning Agencies by Tilottama Chatterjee by Poetry In English
• Torn Shades by Thomas Lux by Poetry In English
• The Road That Runs Beside The River by Thomas Lux by Poetry In English
• The Pulling Away by Timothy Cole by Poetry In English
• The Pleasures of Melancholy by Thomas Warton by Poetry In English
• The Man Into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball by Thomas Lux by Poetry In English
• The Mocking Bird by Timothy Thomas Fortune by Poetry In English

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