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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: 2, 13, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poet's Biography
First Line: Even as a lover, dreaming, unaware
Last Line: Green diamond, or gem of girasol!
First Line: Even as a lover, dreaming, unaware
Last Line: Green diamond, or gem of girasol!
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!
Other Poems of Interest...
A LATTER-DAY SAINT by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN
A SAMPLE OF COFFEE BEANS by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN
AN INCIDENT by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN
ANYBODY'S CRITIC by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN
APRIL by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN
AS SOMETIMES IN A GROVE by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN
CORALIE by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN
ELIDORE by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN
G.D.W. by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN
GUNHILDA by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN
HYMN TO THE VIRGIN by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN
HYMN WRITTEN FOR THE DEDICATION OF A CEMETERY by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN