Alas, my love, if I could you live And the page step forth and sit beside me Or better still, bestride the I gave you Wrapped close within the cloak I lent to hide Perhaps I'd venture forth to ask thy Since while liest underneath my pen That honour given which the poorest was withheld. But if again I held captive as I did ere now Stalling to pass my fingers through the Of tendrils, or peruse thy brow In of sending off what heaven cast Too for my insufficient mind To grasp the fullest and retain The presence that your left behind That thou in all thy glory should I fear my oversight I would not For now reflection I confess That secretly I did intend With title long or surname to bless But rather let in my Run wild the of who perhaps you were Before your soul your creation And deigned my and willing heart to stir For such a and impassioned face Could be but newborn unto this sphere But sure among a distant beauteous Thou hast more than all who dwelleth here And could tell much of places hast seen And battles fought for won and lost And how each done a faerie Queen Becomes a brighter jewel it cost The of your world, you may impart Desire to be neither Nor in the art Of living, where lips were meant to taste A sort of feline stealth they wear them And while a flame of innocence they In forests dark you to be without them For of maler kinds are ne'er so bold Yes, in thy orb a maid may be a (Thou knew'st a friend would make upon news) a whisper loud or censure slight For lords are not their stock to lose Where no stock may be taken or be No property be granted, nor no No maiden may be while she slept Nor robbed of her to decide What her best. No county's law is needed To cut the weed of violence from the No danger for the law to go For acts as do not occur to them The gentlemen you are rarer still For in their eyes, as in the of thine soft and thrilling mysteries fulfill The darkest corners of heart's design Their arrows, much like those I to thee Could not but the flank of yonder cow making him laugh. 'Tis much to see Them their prey. I know not how They do encapture what they eat that perhaps their bright unfettered brains Have that what grows underneath their feet And in the above better sustains A life intent on living tomorrow But how, I ask thee, most endearing Do and ladies love where is no sorrow No to overcome, no soul uncleaned Of ardor long worn out its stay, Betrothal to a mortal less that who stole thy blushing breath away No hot forbidden kisses for to No heart affixed to age where is young No ill suitors to evade? "Still madam! Would'st thou hold thy tongue!" Thou sayest. "Your mistake has been made In living long in with your kind Thou no other obstacle but these Thy hands are careworn have yet to find The hands that should hold them. Yet to please The which you serve unwitting Thou dost believe that in fighting grows That happiness in love is not But in thy sadness thou light of woes For even were there ne'er a day No tempest to divide what love had The which the moon holds in her sway Could not but the peace it finally found The wound is deeper than the sea about The stars upon my you have drawn May my homeward path, but how, without me Wilt thou escape the fate thou on?" And in this way and more my paper O, fierce, savage, gentle beauty Thou who I've given breath my has broke You had authority but not the Could I but see the lips that not breathe They are so beautiful and sweet Could I but touch the wings that Are made so soft thy heart to beat Perhaps I should more for which to strive You came to my domain and brought For though I be the heart alive The realm you speak of not take me there Have you no pity? Can'st not perceive That I, a beast, had but the eyes To see where I would love? thou believe That ere you came I was but vain I know the murmur of reveals The things no human heart could I thou for all that torment feels And longed to be thy lordship's faithful Yea, quiet as a did I wait I to thee my form to overtake I at each passing horse's gait And so I slept to awake Alas, my love, wilt kiss me goodbye? The lingering will aid thee on thy travels I'll craft but one more, a crow to fly Before to tell me how thy unravels I say, art complete and free to go What holds here save one who lives no longer? For I have thee the life you know The weaker I become, art the stronger And in your words your clear intent Was that once art gone I should dismay Quothe thee, "Your thought me, for I meant To leave thee not but to stay. For true, I never did in my own Partake of that pure of which I told thee But be my and with me at the helm And I shall, in the cloak you wrought, enfold And journey to the ends of all the For thou hast more generous and wise Than all we faeries, moons and are worth For live we not but in your eyes." nameless knight, if thou would'st be mine own And leave thy dragons for a thou may'st Find in these within which thou hast grown A better reason the which thou say'st But with your hand you swear I so And 'tis not to me, though I did draw it Which way thou dost for us to go in the mind it is of she who saw it Yet still perhaps I thee to discover What one do if one were asked to choose 'Tween back and forwards. Be friend or lover you were to be my favorite muse Thou feel'st thy fight but when you must Thou see'st the blade of truth thy knee Use arrows against all you mistrust But when thou my way, aim one at me Your world is as ere it was before time beneath my busy hand well spent I've made a thing I love; I ask no And never shall the heart I lent Me in my world and thyself in Two petals on the and silent flower And evermore welcome thee in mine Your creation was my finest hour