THE dappled die-away Cheek and wimpled lip, The gold-wisp, the airy-grey Eye, all in fellowship -- This, all this beauty blooming, This, all this freshness fuming, Give God while worth consuming. Both thought and thew now bolder And told by Nature: Tower; Head, heart, hand, heel, and shoulder That beat and breathe in power -- This pride of prime's enjoyment Take as for tool, not toy meant And hold at Christ's employment. The vault and scope and schooling And mastery in the mind, In silk-ash kept from cooling, And ripest under rind -- What life half lifts the latch of, What hell stalks towards the snatch of, Your offering, with despatch, of! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WHITE AN' BLUE by WILLIAM BARNES PICTURES OF MEMORY by ALICE CARY A NORTHERN SUBURB by JOHN DAVIDSON TO COLIN CLOUT by ANTHONY MUNDAY LOVE AND TIME by WALTER RALEIGH THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 54. LOVE'S FATALITY by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI |