HER rosy cheeks, her ever-smiling eyes, Are spheres and beds where Love in triumph lies: Her rubine lips, when they their pearl unlock, Make them seem as they did rise All out of one smooth coral rock. O that of other creatures' store I knew More worthy and more rare! For these are old, and she so new, That her to them none should compare O could she love! would she but hear a friend! Or that she only knew what sighs pretend! Her looks inflame, yet cold as ice is she. Do or speak, all's to one end, For what she is that will she be. Yet will I never cease her praise to sing. Though she gives no regard: For they that grace a worthless thing Are only greedy of reward. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE OLD SANTA FE TRAIL by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON THE CRAFTSMAN by MARCUS B. CHRISTIAN THE BAYADERE by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS CLANCY OF THE MOUNTED POLICE by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE CROSSING THE BAR by ALFRED TENNYSON THE LESSER BEAUTY by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON ECLOGUE: FATHER COME HWOME by WILLIAM BARNES |