Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MA BELLE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON


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First Line: For your eyes of heavenly hue
Last Line: I dearly love you.
Subject(s): Beauty; Good; Love


FOR your eyes of heavenly hue,
Heather blue-bells steeped in dew,
In whose depths my mirrored self
Smiles at me like tiny elf,
I dearly love you.

For your braided silken hair
Waving from a forehead fair,
Like the gossamer in sheen,
Like a poet's dream, I ween,
I dearly love you.

For your lips of perfect mold,
Rosebuds ere they quite unfold,
When they smiling ope to speak,
Dancing dimples star the cheek,
I dearly love you.

For your hands like lilies fair
Breathing perfume on the air,
For the gentle, timid clasp
In my warm, impassioned grasp,
I dearly love you.

These are charms like flowers sweet,
But alone—are incomplete—
For your heart and mind, ma belle,
Where the Christian graces dwell,
I dearly love you.





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