As the chill'd robin, bound to Florida Upon a morn of autumn, crosses flying The air-track of a snipe most passing fair -- Yet colder in her blood than she is fair -- And as that robin lingers on the wing, And feels the snipe's flight in the eddying air, And loves her for her coldness not the less -- But fain would win her to that warmer sky Where love lies waking with the fragrant stars -- So I -- a languisher for sunnier climes, Where fruit, leaf, blossom, on the trees forever Image the tropic deathlessness of love -- Have met, and long'd to win thee, fairest lady, To a more genial clime than cold Broadway! Tranquil and effortless thou glidest on, As doth the swan upon the yielding water, And with a cheek like alabaster cold! But as thou didst divide the amorous air Just opposite the Astor, and didst lift That veil of languid lashes to look in At Leary's tempting window -- lady! then My heart sprang in beneath that fringed veil, Like an adventurous bird that would escape To some warm chamber from the outer cold! And there would I delightedly remain, And close that fringed window with a kiss, And in the warm sweet chamber of thy breast, Be prisoner forever! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VILLA PAULINE by KATHERINE MANSFIELD THE DORCHESTER GIANT by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES AVE MARIA GRATIA PLENA by OSCAR WILDE PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 99. AZ-ZABOOR by EDWIN ARNOLD AT THE GRAVE OF DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI by H. T. MACKENZIE BELL ANOTHER WAY OF LOVE by ROBERT BROWNING |