PURITY born of a Maid: Was such a Virgin defiled? Nay, by no shade of a shade. She offered her gift of pure love, A dove with a fair fellow-dove. She offered her Innocent Child The Essence and Author of Love; The Lamb that indwelt by the Dove Was spotless and holy and mild; More pure than all other, More pure than His Mother, Her God and Redeemer and Child. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WHAT THE BIRDS SAID by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER AN UNTIMELY THOUGHT by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH ZEUS TOO IS A VICTIM by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS THE SIGHING TIME by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN SUNSHINE AND SHADOW by ROBERT BROWN ASOLANDO: THE CARDINAL AND THE DOG by ROBERT BROWNING TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. I COME FORTH FROM THE DARKNESS by EDWARD CARPENTER |