Nature, that gave the bee so feat a grace To find honey of so wondrous fashion, Hath taught the spider out of the same place To fetch poison, by strange alteration. Though this be strange, it is a stranger case With one kiss by secret operation Both these at once in those your lips to find, In change whereof I leave my heart behind. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FOR ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S EVE by MALCOLM COWLEY ARMOR by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE CROSS by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON WHEN I RISE UP by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 3. TEESTAY by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON |