You are like startled song-wings against my heart Which flutters like a harp-string wounded By too much quivering music. You cover me with a blue dream-robe Whose silk ripples out like imaged water. And when, for a moment, you leave, I am a black sky awaiting its moon. If I could be moonlight scattered out Over the blowing dark blue hair Or kneeling flowing crystal breezes Breathing a litany of pale odors; If I could be moonlight scattered out Over the whispers meeting in your heart, The marriage of our souls would be No more complete than now. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WITH FLOWERS by EMILY DICKINSON A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 9 by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN MOTHER TO SON by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES RAILROAD RHYME by JOHN GODFREY SAXE TO MR. BOWRING ON HIS POETICAL TRANSLATIONS by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD LOVES MONARCHIE by JOSEPH BEAUMONT VERSES DESIGNED FOR A WATCH CASE by JOHN BYROM |