That Jealousy may rule a mind Where Love could never be I know; but ne'er expect to find Love without Jealousy. She has a strange cast in her ee, A swart sour-visaged maid -- But yet Love's own twin-sister she His house-mate and his shade. Ask for her and she'll be denied: -- What then? they only mean Their mistress has lain down to sleep, And can't just then be seen. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PSALM 8. MAN'S PLACE IN CREATION by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE TO COLE, THE PAINTER, DEPARTING FOR EUROPE by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT THE TASK: BOOK 4. THE WINTER EVENING by WILLIAM COWPER ON THE BUILDING OF SPRINGFIELD by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY WHO WALKS WITH BEAUTY by DAVID MORTON IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 25 by ALFRED TENNYSON |