WHOSE adored one is this? For her beauty walks on light to the ends of the Earth: The Australian and Spaniard must sigh at a glance of her face. Many bring gifts to you, kneeling in the dust before your loveliness: Must I come, too? Ah, no! ah, no! I will stand before you: my eyes a little higher than your eyes: I will demand tribute of you, Even the tribute I bring: Yourself for myself: equal and free. If you want worshippers, take these secret thirsters after your beauty ... The honey they bring is bitter ... But if you want love, you can only get what you give: You too must adore the beloved, and kneel down yourself when he kneels. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PHANTOM by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE GERANIUMS by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON THE MAN-OF-WAR HAWK by HERMAN MELVILLE CAROLINA [JANUARY, 1865] by HENRY TIMROD FRAGMENT by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND, IN ANSWER TO SOME LINES TO BE CHEERFUL by GEORGE GORDON BYRON |