If earth is an oyster, love is the pearl, As pure as pure caresses; Then loosen the gold of your hair, my girl, And hide my pearl in your tresses. So, coral to coral and pearl to pearl, And a cloud of curls above me, O bury me deep, my beautiful girl, And then confess you love me. The world goes over my beautiful girl In glitter and gold and odor of roses, In eddies of splendor, in oceans of pearl, But here the heaven reposes. . . . The world is wide; men go their ways, But love it is wise, and of all the hours, And of all the beautiful sun-born days, It sips their sweets as the bees sip flowers. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A PORTRAIT by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING TO THE MEMORY OF MR. OLDHAM by JOHN DRYDEN RAIN-SONGS by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR WHAT THE SONNET IS by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON THE PRESENT CRISIS by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL MOON OF LOVELINESS by MUHAMMAD AL-MU'TAMID II |