Welcome to More Famous Love Poems #3

O Lady Flora, let me speak:
A pleasant hour has pass’d away
While dreaming on your damask cheek,
The dewy sister-eyelids lay.
As by the lattice you reclined,
I went through many wayward moods
To see you dreaming – and, behind,
A summer crisp with shining woods.
And I too dream’d, until at last
Across my fancy, brooding warm,
The reflex of a legend past,
And loosely settled into form.
And would you have the thought I had,
And see the vision that I saw,
Then take the broidery-frame, and add
A crimson to the quaint Macaw,
And I will tell it. Turn your face,
Nor look with that too-earnest eye –
The rhymes are dazzled from their place,
And order’d words asunder fly.
The Day-Dream - Prologue - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
 

How beautiful the summer night
When birds roost on the mossy tree,
When moon and stars are shining bright
And home has gone the weary bee!
Then Mary Bayfield seeks the glen,
The white hawthorn and grey oak tree,
And nought but heaven can tell me then
How dear thy beauty is to me.
 

Dear is the dewdrop to the flower,
The old wall to the weary bee,
And silence to the evening hour,
And ivy to the stooping tree.
Dearer than these, than all beside,
Than blossoms to the moss-rose tree,
The maid who wanders by my side--
Sweet Mary Bayfield is to me.
 

Sweet is the moonlight on the tree,
The stars above the glassy lake,
That from the bottom look at me
Through shadows of the crimping brake.
Such are sweet things--but sweeter still
Than these and all beside I see
The maid whose look my heart can thrill,
My Mary Bayfield's look to me.
 

O Mary with the dark brown hair,
The rosy cheek, the beaming eye,
I would thy shade were ever near;
Then would I never grieve or sigh.
I love thee, Mary dearly love--
There's nought so fair on earth I see,
There's nought so dear in heaven above,
As Mary Bayfield is to me.
Mary Bayfield – John Clare
 

Sleeping together…how tired you were!
How warm our room…how the firelight spread
On walls and ceiling and great white bed!
We spoke in whispers as children do,
And now it was I - and then it was you
Slept a moment, to wake – ‘My dear,
I'm not at all sleepy,' one of us said…
 

Was it a thousand years ago?
I woke in your arms you were sound asleep –
And heard the pattering sound of sheep.
Softly I slipped to the floor and crept
To the curtained window, then, while you slept,
I watched the sheep pass by in the snow.
 

O flock of thoughts with their shepherd Fear
Shivering, desolate, out in the cold,
That entered into my heart to fold!
A thousand years…was it yesterday
When we, two children of far away,
Clinging close in the darkness, lay
Sleeping together?…How tired you were!…
Sleeping Together - Katherine Mansfield
 

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