Then spake I to the tree, " Were ye your own desire What is it ye would be?" Answered the tree to me, " I am my own desire, I am what I would be. " If you were your desire Would you lie under me, And see me as you see?" " I am my own desire While I lie under you, And that which I would be Desire will sing to you." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SUSSEX DRINKING SONG by HILAIRE BELLOC GHOSTS OF A LUNATIC ASYLUM by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET UNTITLED, 1968; FOR MARK ROTHKO by JAMES GALVIN MOTHERHOOD by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON SONNET TO THOSE WHO SEE BUT DARKLY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON |