1. LOVE in her sunny eyes doth basking play; Love walks the pleasant mazes of her hair; Love does on both her lips for ever stray, And sows and reaps a thousand kisses there: In all her outward parts Love's always seen; But oh! he never went within. 2. Within Love's foes, his greatest foes abide, Malice, Inconstancy and Pride. So the Earth's face, Trees, Herbs, and Flow'rs do dresse, With other beauties numberlesse; But at the Center, Darknesse is, and Hell; There wicked Spirits, and there the Damned dwell. 3. With me, alas, quite contrary it fares; Darknesse and Death lies in my weeping eyes, Despair and Palenesse in my face appears. And Grief and Fear, Love's greatest enemies; But, like the Persian Tyrant, Love within Keeps his proud Court, and ne'er is seen. 4. Oh take my Heart, and by that means you'll prove Within too stor'd enough of Love: Give me but Your's, I'll by that chance so thrive, That Love in all my parts shall live. So powerfull is this change, it render can My outside Woman, and your inside Man. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WASHERS OF THE SHROUD; OCTOBER, 1861 by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL THE PROUD MISS MACBRIDE; A LEGEND OF GOTHAM by JOHN GODFREY SAXE ELEGIAC SONNET: 2. WRITTEN AT THE CLOSE OF SPRING by CHARLOTTE SMITH TO THE VERS LIBRIST WHO USES ONLY THE MINOR KEY by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS ACROSS THE STREET by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH POET'S CORNER by ALFRED AUSTIN SHE BEGINING TO STUDY PHISICK ... FALLS INTO A DEGRESSION ON ANATOMY by JANE BARKER |