BEFORE YOU kissed me only winds of heaven Had kissed me, and the tenderness of rain-- Now you have come, how can I care for kisses Like theirs again? I sought the sea, she sent her winds to meet me, They surged about me singing of the south-- I turned my head away to keep still holy Your kiss upon my mouth. And swift sweet rains of shining April weather Found not my lips where living kisses are; I bowed my head lest they put out my glory As rain puts out a star. I am my love's and he is mine forever, Sealed with a seal and safe forevermore-- Think you that I could let a beggar enter Where a king stood before? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FORGOTTEN GRAVE by EMILY DICKINSON MY MARYLAND by JAMES RYDER RANDALL A CHILD TO HIS SICK GRANDFATHER by JOANNA BAILLIE THE MARVELOUS MUNCHAUSEN by WILLIAM ROSE BENET PSALM 5; AUGUST 12, 1653 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 24, ASKING FOR HER HEART (2) by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT SIC VITA by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE |