Alas, my love, if I could make you And from the step forth and sit beside me Or still, bestride the steed I gave you Wrapped close within the cloak I to hide thee Perhaps I'd forth to ask thy name while thou liest underneath my pen That honour which the poorest claim Unjustly was withheld. But if I held captive as I did ere now Stalling to pass my through the last Of midnight tendrils, or thy brow In fear of sending off what heaven Too early for my insufficient To the fullest detail and retain The presence that image left behind That thou in all thy should remain I my oversight I would not mend For now upon reflection I secretly I never did intend With title long or rich to bless But rather let in my Run wild the thoughts of who perhaps you Before soul demanded your creation And deigned my mind and heart to stir For such a noble and face Could well be but newborn this sphere But sure among a distant beauteous hast known more than all who dwelleth here And could tell much of places hast seen And battles for honours won and lost And how each service a faerie Queen Becomes a jewel than it cost The ladies of world, you may impart Desire to be over-graced Nor in the art Of living, their lips were meant to taste A sort of stealth they wear about them And while a flame of innocence they In forests dark you fear to be without For knights of maler kinds are so bold Yes, in thy orb a may be a knight (Thou knew'st a friend make upon this news) Without a whisper loud or slight For lords are not afeared their stock to Where no may be taken or be kept No be granted, nor no bride No may be stolen while she slept Nor of her freedom to decide suits her best. No county's law is needed To cut the weed of violence from the No for the law to go unheeded For acts as these do not to them The you raise are rarer still For in their eyes, as in the depths of Such and thrilling mysteries fulfill The corners of their heart's design arrows, much like those I gave to thee Could not but graze the flank of cow Without him laugh. 'Tis much to see Them tickling their prey. I not how They ever do encapture what eat Save that perhaps their unfettered brains Have learned that what grows their feet And in the above better sustains A intent on living well tomorrow But how, I ask thee, most fiend Do lords and ladies love where is no No strife to overcome, no soul Of crushing ardor worn out its stay, Betrothal to a less divine Than that who stole thy breath away No hot forbidden kisses for to No heart affixed to age heart is young No ill intentioned suitors to "Still madam! Would'st kindly hold thy tongue!" Thou sayest. "Your has rash been made In long in combat with your kind Thou see'st no other but these Thy hands are careworn that yet to find The hands that first hold them. Yet to please The hierarchy which you unwitting Thou dost that love in fighting grows happiness in love is not befitting But in thy sadness thou mak'st of woes For even were there ne'er a day No to divide what love had bound The galley which the moon holds in her not but stir the peace it finally found The wound is deeper the sea about thee The stars my doublet you have drawn May light my path, but how, without me Wilt thou the fate thou tremblest on?" And in this way and my paper spoke O, fierce, savage, gentle beauty who I've given breath my soul has broke You had but not the right Could I but see the lips dare not breathe They are so and pressing sweet Could I but touch the wings that Are made so thy heart forgets to beat Perhaps I should have more for which to You to my domain and brought despair For though I be the chastest heart The realm you speak of will not take me you no pity? Can'st thou not perceive That I, a beast, had but the eyes To see where I would love? Dost believe That ere you I was but vain disguise? I know the murmur of reveals The things no human heart could I render'st thou for all that feels And to be thy lordship's faithful friend Yea, quiet as a mushroom did I I willed to my form to overtake I shivered at each horse's gait And so I to suddenly awake Alas, my love, wilt thou me goodbye? The lingering will aid thee on thy travels craft but one thing more, a crow to fly Before to tell me how thy unravels I say, art complete and free to go What holds thee here one who lives no longer? For I have given thee the you know The weaker I become, thou art the And in your antique words your intent Was that once thou art gone I should Quothe thee, "Your thought me, for I meant To leave thee not but to stay. For true, I did in my own realm 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, thee And to the ends of all the earth For hast proved more generous and wise Than all we faeries, moons and stars are For live we not but living in eyes." Dear knight, if thou would'st be mine own And leave thy dragons for a thou may'st Find in these arms which thou hast grown A better than the which thou say'st But with your hand you pointeth; I so And 'tis not plain to me, I did draw it Which way dost intend for us to go in the mind it is of she who saw it Yet still I made thee to discover What one would do if one were asked to back and forwards. Be thee friend or lover Perhaps you were to be my muse Thou feel'st thy fight but when you must Thou the blade of truth below thy knee Use arrows against all whom you But when thou my way, aim one at me Your world is as ere it was before Your time beneath my busy hand spent I've made a thing I love; I ask no And never redeem the heart I lent Me in my world and thyself in Two petals on the and silent flower And evermore I'll welcome in mine Your dear was my finest hour