I KNOW a secret, such a one The hawthorn blossoms spider-spun, The dew-damp daisies in the grass Laugh up to greet me as I pass To meet the upland sun. It is that I would fainer be The little page, on bended knee, Who stoops to gather up her train Beneath the porch-lamp's ruby rain Than hold a realm in fee. It is that in her scornful eye, Too hid for courtly sneer to spy, I saw, one day, a look which said That I, and only I, might shed Love-light across her sky. I know a secret, such a one The hawthorn blossoms spider-spun, The dew-damp daisies in the grass Laugh up to greet me as I pass To meet the upland sun. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SEA-GRAVE by SARA TEASDALE THE POPPY-LAND EXPRESS by EDGAR WADE ABBOT ULTIMA THULE: DEDICATION by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW CLEAR WEATHER by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE SHRINE by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE |