@3To you, dear Wife—to whom beside so well?— True Counselor and tried, at every shift, I bring my "Book of Counsels:" let it tell Largeness of love by littleness of gift: And take this growth of foreign skies from me, (A scholar's thanks for gentle help in toil,) Whose leaf, "though dark," like Milton's Hæmony, "Bears a bright golden flower, if not in this soil."@1 | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LAY OF THE LOVELORN; PARODY OF TENNYSON'S 'LOCKSLEY HALL' by THEODORE MARTIN SONNET: 10 by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY AH, BIND MY HANDS by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS WHEN I WAS YOUNG by IRMA TIBBETTS ANDREWS COME UP HIGHER by MINNIE KEITH BAILEY THE WORKING MAN'S SONG by JOHN STUART BLACKIE |