DEEP in the moving depths Of yellow wine, I swore I'd drown your face, O love of mine; All clad in yellow hue, So fair to see, You crouched within my cup And laughed at me. Twice o'er a learned page I turned and tossed, For would I not forget The love I lost? All stern and robed in gloom, You read it too; I could not see the words— Saw only you. Within the hungry chase I thought to kill You, love, who haunted thus Without my will; But in the gentle gaze Of fawn and deer, Your eyes disarmed my hand, And shook my spear. Beneath a maid's dark lash I swore you'd drown, Sink in the laughing blue— Give in, go down: But no! you bathed there Right joyously, And from her liquid eyes You laughed at me. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WHAT I LIVE FOR by GEORGE LINNAEUS BANKS BIRD AND BROOK by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES THE BLESSED DAMOZEL by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI TWO THINGS by AMIR MAHMUD IBN AMIR YAMINU'D-DIN TUGHRA'I SONG FOR THE NEWBORN by MARY HUNTER AUSTIN RIDDLE by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |