Nymph of the garden where all beauties be; Beauties, which do in excellency pass His who till death looked in a watery glass, Or hers whom naked the Trojan boy did see: Sweet garden nymph, which keeps the cherry tree, Whose fruit doth far th'Hesperian taste surpass; Most sweet-fair, most fair-sweet, do not, alas, From coming near those cherries banish me. For though, full of desire, empty of wit, Admitted late by your best-graced grace, I caught at one of them a hungry bit; Pardon that fault, once more grant me the place, And I do swear, even by the same delight, I will but kiss, I never more will bite. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SAILOR TO HIS PARROT by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES DIVINA COMMEDIA (INTRODUCTORY POEMS): 1 by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE THIRD DAY: SCANDERBERG by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW GIVE ME THE SPLENDID SILENT SUN by WALT WHITMAN PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 47. AL-HAKIM by EDWIN ARNOLD THE STEAM-ENGINE: CANTO 7. LESSON FOR THE PROUD by T. BAKER |