I SAW it - pink and white - revealed Upon the white and green; The white and green was a daisied field, The pink and white Ethleen. And as I looked it seemed in kind That difference they had none; The two fair bodiments combined As varied miens of one. A sense that, in some mouldering year, As one they both would lie, Made me move quickly on to her To pass the pale thought by. She laughed and said: 'Out there, to me, You looked so weather-browned, And brown in clothes, you seemed to be Made of the dusty ground!' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE STORY OF ZERBIN AND ISABELLA, FR. ORLANDO FURIOSO by LUDOVICO (LODOVICO) ARIOSTO SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 41. TO THE 'UNKNOWABLE' GOD by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) TO AUTUMN, NEAR HER DEPARTURE by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 62 by BLISS CARMAN THE SPECIAL DARLING by ALICE CARY THE CANTERBURY TALES: THE FRIAR'S PROLOGUE by GEOFFREY CHAUCER |