Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CONSUMMATION, by CHARLOTTE A. STERE First Line: My beloved is come down unto his garden Last Line: For I am my beloved's and he is mine. | ||||||||
My beloved is come down unto his garden To his own beds of balsam and his walks; And when the early dew begins to harden, He gathers lilies from their slender stalks; For he is very fair, my love is fair And strong as armies in the fierce array. How fine and straight, how raven black his hair, How like the sun he shines throughout my day! His eyes are doves beside the waterbrooks, But yet how clear, how bold to overcome -- Oh, I am clean abashed before his looks -- Before his kindly smile my lips are dumb: All through the night our limbs together twine For I am my beloved's and he is mine. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AUTUMN MOVEMENT by CARL SANDBURG EPITAPH: FOR A LADY I KNOW by COUNTEE CULLEN SCARABAEUS SISYPHUS by MATHILDE BLIND VALUES by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN TO SIR THOS. BARLOW, P.R.C.P. by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES THE BATTLE OF MARATHON by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING PHEIDIPPIDES by ROBERT BROWNING |
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