Even as a lover, dreaming, unaware, Calls o'er his mistress' features hour by hour, Nor thinks of simple dress and humble dower But pictures to himself her graces rare,-- Dark eyes, dark lashes, and harmonious hair Caught lightly up with amaryllis flower, Haemanthus, eardrop, or auricula, And deems within wide Nature's bound and law All to beseem her beauty but designed, Of pure or proud, nor counts himself too bold To fit her forehead with the perfect gold Or round her girlish temples belt and bind Some lamp of jewels, lovelier than the whole, Green diamond, or gem of girasol! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ART OF POETRY; TO CHARLES MORICE by PAUL VERLAINE THE DESOLATE FIELD by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS IN MAY by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR UPON HIS SPANIEL [SPANIELL] TRACIE by ROBERT HERRICK ANGEL OR WOMAN by THOMAS PARNELL MY VERY PARTICULAR FRIEND by MARIA ABDY A FRAGMENT OF AN EPIC POEM, OCCASIONED BY THE LOSS OF A GAME by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |