I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

There is a quiet at the heart of love, And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.

Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That Time cannot take Nor a thief purloin- O better than the minting Of a gold-crowned king Is the safe-kept memory Of a lovely thing.

Love said, "Wake still and think of me," Sleep, "Close your eyes till break of day," But Dreams came by and smilingly Gave both to Love and Sleep their way.

My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain.

What we have never had, remains; It is the things we have that go.