Christopher Morley

Here you will find the Poem The Wedded Lover of poet Christopher Morley

The Wedded Lover

I READ in our old journals of the days 
When our first love was April-sweet and new, 
How fair it blossomed and deep-rooted grew 
Despite the adverse time; and our amaze 
At moon and stars and beauty beyond praise 
That burgeoned all about us: gold and blue 
The heaven arched us in, and all we knew 
Was gentleness. We walked on happy ways.

They said by now the path would be more steep, 
the sunsets paler and less mild the air; 
Rightly we heeded not; it was not true. 
We will not tell the secret-let it keep. 
I know not how I thought those days so fair 
These being so much fairer, spent with you