MY heart is freighted full of love, As full as any argosy, With gems below and gems above, And ready for the open sea; For the wind is blowing summerly. Full strings of nature's beaded pearl, Sweet tears! composed in amorous ties And turkis-lockets, that no churl Hath fashioned out mechanic-wise, But all made up of thy blue eyes. And girdles wove of subtle sound, And thoughts not trusted to the air, Of antique mould, -- the same as bound, In Paradise, the primal pair, Before Love's arts and niceness were. And carcanets of living sighs; Gums that have dropped from Love's own stem, And one small jewel most I prize -- The darling gaud of all of them -- I wot, so rare and fine a gem Ne'er glowed on Eastern anadem. I've cased the rubies of thy smiles, In rich and triply-plated gold; But @3this@1 no other wealth defiles, Itself itself can only hold -- The stealthy kiss on Maple-wold. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 10. THE DYING FALL by THOMAS CAMPION HIS REQUEST TO JULIA by ROBERT HERRICK FOR THE HOLY FAMILY, BY MICHELANGELO (IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI TO A CAT by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE TO A BIRCH TREE by KENNETH SLADE ALLING LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 3. ISAAC BROWN by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM ON THE AMOROUS AND PATHETIC STORY OF ARCADIUS AND SEPHA by L. B. |