Even as a lover, dreaming, unaware, Calls o'er his mistress' features hour by hour, Nor thinks of simple dress and humble dower But pictures to himself her graces rare,-- Dark eyes, dark lashes, and harmonious hair Caught lightly up with amaryllis flower, Haemanthus, eardrop, or auricula, And deems within wide Nature's bound and law All to beseem her beauty but designed, Of pure or proud, nor counts himself too bold To fit her forehead with the perfect gold Or round her girlish temples belt and bind Some lamp of jewels, lovelier than the whole, Green diamond, or gem of girasol! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PLEDGE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON COUNTRYWOMEN by KATHERINE MANSFIELD APPELLATE JURISDICTION by MARIANNE MOORE FROM THE WOOLWORTH TOWER by SARA TEASDALE THE TREE OF SONG by SARA TEASDALE THE WINE OF NIGHT by LOUIS UNTERMEYER THE WANDERER: A ROCOCO STUDY (FIRST VERSION) by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS |