Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A LOVE TOKEN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poet's Biography First Line: Do you grieve no costly offering Last Line: Glittering at her side. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Hope; Love; Pain; Tears; Optimism; Suffering; Misery | ||||||||
Do you grieve no costly offering To the Lady you can make? One there is, and gifts less worthy Queens have stooped to take. Take a Heart of virgin silver, Fashion it with heavy blows, Cast it into Love's hot furnace When it fiercest glows. With Pain's sharpest point transfix it, And then carve, in letters fair, Tender dreams and quaint devices, Fancies sweet and rare. Set within it Hope's blue sapphire, Many-changing opal fears, Blood-red ruby-stones of daring, Mixed with pearly tears. And when you have wrought and labored Till the gift is all complete, You may humbly lay your offering At the Lady's feet. Should her mood perchance be gracious, With disdainful, smiling pride, She will place it with the trinkets Glittering at her side. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PARTHENOPHIL AND PARTHENOPHE: MADRIGAL 14 by BARNABE BARNES SONNETS IN SHADOWS: 1 by ARLO BATES IN PRAISE OF PAIN by HEATHER MCHUGH THE SYMPATIZERS by JOSEPHINE MILES LEEK STREET by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR A DOUBTING HEART by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER |
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