YOU are proud and strong, lion-hearted girl: But do you know what love is? You are quick with the colors of beauty, star-gleaming girl: But do you know what passion is? Oh, the skies of Spring are here: Where is a mate for the moon-warm darkness? Crickets shall shrill in the grass as you walk alone. What is the beauty of the lilies when no sun floods them? They die, adorable one, they die in the grasses! Do not turn away from the splendid shining of love: But take your pride and your strength and with your two hands cast them in the dust: Give up to love, as in death, to be born again: You will come back radiant, you will come back bearing the sunrise, Filling the light of the world with the light of your eyes. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...UNDER A PATCHED SAIL by MARIANNE MOORE AT KENNEBUNKPORT by LOUIS UNTERMEYER THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE PINES AND THE SEA by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH UPON THE IMAGE OF DEATH by ROBERT SOUTHWELL THE WIDOW OF GLENCOE by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN RYE BREAD by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE CLEVEDON VERSES: 9. THE VOICES OF NATURE by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN |