IT is a gem which hath the power to show If plighted lovers keep their faith or no: If faithful, it is like the leaves of spring; If faithless, like those leaves when withering. Take back again your emerald gem, There is no colour in the stone; It might have graced a diadem, But now its hue and light are gone! Take back your gift, and give me mine -- The kiss that sealed our last love-vow; Ah, other lips have been on thine, -- My kiss is lost and sullied now! The gem is pale, the kiss forgot, And, more than either, you are changed; But my true love has alter'd not, My heart is broken -- not estranged! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MOTHER NATURE by EMILY DICKINSON IDEA: 14. TO TIME by MICHAEL DRAYTON BETWEEN THE LINES by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON GOD'S ACRE by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW EDEN BOWER by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI SATIRES: 51. UPON NOTHING by JOHN WILMOT |