Give Me a Day

GIVE me a day, beloved, that I may set
A jewel in my heart—I’ll brave regret,
If, on the morrow, you shall say “forget”!

One golden day when dawn shall blush to noon
And noon incline to dark, and, oversoon,
My joy lie buried ’neath a rounded moon.

Only a day—it’s worth you scarce could tell
From other days; but in my life ’twill dwell
An oasis with palm trees and a well!