Why how now reason, how are you amazed? Is worth in beauty shrined up to be loathed? Shall nature's riches by yourself be razed? In what but these can you be finely clothed? Though Myra's eyes, glasses of joy, and smart, Daintily shadowed, show forth love and fear, Shall fear make reason from her right depart? Shall lack of hope the love of worth forbear? Where is the homage then that nature oweth? Love is a tribute to perfection due; Reason in self-love's livery bondage showeth, And hath no freedom, Myra, but in you; Then worth, love, reason, beauty be content In Myra only to be permanent. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENGLAND AND HER COLONIES [OR, DOMINIONS] by WILLIAM WATSON ON HIS RETURN FROM SPAIN by THOMAS WYATT PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 9. AL-HATHIM by EDWIN ARNOLD HE WILL GIVE ME POWER by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE TAKE YOUR CHOICE: AND PERHAPS GELETT BURGESS by BERTON BRALEY |