If I knew What Poets Know

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h4 id="id00309" style="margin-top: 2em">IF I KNEW WHAT POETS KNOW</h4> <p id="id00310">If I knew what poets know,<br/> Would I write a rhyme<br/> Of the buds that never blow<br/> In the summer-time?<br/> Would I sing of golden seeds<br/> Springing up in ironweeds?<br/> And of rain-drops turned to snow,<br/> If I knew what poets know?<br/></p> <p id="id00311">Did I know what poets do,<br/> Would I sing a song<br/> Sadder than the pigeon's coo<br/> When the days are long?<br/> Where I found a heart in pain,<br/> I would make it glad again;<br/> And the false should be the true,<br/> Did I know what poets do.<br/></p> <p id="id00312">If I knew what poets know,<br/> I would find a theme<br/> Sweeter than the placid flow<br/> Of the fairest dream:<br/> I would sing of love that lives<br/> On the errors it forgives;<br/> And the world would better grow<br/> If I knew what poets know.<br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />