Alas, my love, if I make you live And from the page forth and sit beside me Or better still, bestride the steed I you Wrapped close within the I lent to hide thee Perhaps I'd venture to ask thy name while thou liest underneath my pen That given which the poorest claim Unjustly was withheld. But if I held thee as I did ere now Stalling to pass my fingers through the Of tendrils, or peruse thy brow In fear of off what heaven cast Too early for my mind To the fullest detail and retain The presence that image left behind That thou in all thy should remain I fear my oversight I would not For now upon I confess That secretly I did intend With title long or surname rich to But rather let in my Run wild the of who perhaps you were Before your soul demanded creation And deigned my mind and heart to stir For such a and impassioned face Could well be but newborn this sphere But sure a distant beauteous race Thou hast more than all who dwelleth here And could tell much of places thou seen And battles fought for won and lost And how each done a faerie Queen Becomes a brighter than it cost The ladies of your world, you may Desire to be neither Nor in the art Of living, where their lips were to taste A sort of feline stealth they about them And while a of innocence they hold In forests dark you fear to be them For knights of maler kinds are ne'er so Yes, in thy orb a may be a knight (Thou knew'st a friend make upon this news) Without a whisper loud or censure For lords are not afeared stock to lose Where no may be taken or be kept No be granted, nor no bride No maiden may be while she slept Nor robbed of her freedom to What suits her best. No law is needed To cut the of violence from the stem No for the law to go unheeded For as these do not occur to them The gentlemen you raise are rarer For in eyes, as in the depths of thine Such and thrilling mysteries fulfill The darkest corners of their design Their arrows, much like I gave to thee not but graze the flank of yonder cow Without making him laugh. 'Tis to see Them tickling their prey. I not how ever do encapture what they eat Save perhaps their bright unfettered brains Have learned that what underneath their feet And in the above better sustains A intent on living well tomorrow But how, I ask thee, most endearing Do lords and love where is no sorrow No strife to overcome, no uncleaned Of crushing ardor worn out its stay, Betrothal to a less divine Than who stole thy blushing breath away No hot kisses for to pine No affixed to age where heart is young No ill intentioned to evade? "Still madam! Would'st kindly hold thy tongue!" sayest. "Your mistake has rash been made In living long in combat your kind Thou see'st no other but these Thy hands are careworn that have yet to The hands that should hold them. Yet to please The which you serve unwitting Thou believe that love in fighting grows happiness in love is not befitting But in thy thou mak'st light of woes For were there ne'er a cloudy day No tempest to what love had bound The galley which the moon in her sway Could not but stir the peace it found The wound is deeper than the sea thee The stars my doublet you have drawn May my homeward path, but how, without me Wilt thou escape the thou tremblest on?" And in this way and my paper spoke O, fierce, savage, gentle bright Thou who I've breath my soul has broke You had authority but not the Could I but see the lips that dare not They are so beautiful and sweet Could I but the wings that underneath Are made so soft thy heart forgets to I should have more for which to strive You came to my and brought despair For though I be the chastest alive The you speak of will not take me there you no pity? Can'st thou 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 render'st thou for all that feels And longed to be thy lordship's friend Yea, quiet as a did I wait I willed to thee my to overtake I at each passing horse's gait And so I slept to suddenly Alas, my love, wilt thou me goodbye? The lingering night will aid thee on thy I'll but one thing more, a crow to fly Before to tell me how thy tale I say, thou art and free to go What thee here save one who lives no longer? For I given thee the life you know The weaker I become, thou art the And in antique words your clear intent Was that once thou art gone I should Quothe thee, "Your thought me, for I meant To leave not but offerest to stay. For true, I did in my own realm Partake of that pure love of which I thee But be my guide and me at the helm And I shall, in the cloak you wrought, enfold And to the ends of all the earth For thou hast proved more generous and Than all we faeries, moons and stars are For we not but living in your eyes." nameless knight, if thou would'st be mine own And thy dragons for a while thou may'st in these arms within which thou hast grown A better reason than the thou say'st But with your hand you swear I so And 'tis not plain to me, though I did 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 thee or lover Perhaps you to be my favorite muse Thou feel'st thy armor; fight but you must Thou see'st the blade of truth below thy Use arrows against all you mistrust But when thou my way, aim one at me world is yours as ere it was before Your time beneath my busy hand spent I've made a thing I I ask no more And never shall redeem the heart I Me in my world and thyself in Two petals on the same and flower And evermore I'll thee in mine dear creation was my finest hour