Alas, my love, if I could make you And from the page step and sit beside me Or better still, bestride the steed I you Wrapped close within the I lent to hide thee I'd venture forth to ask thy name Since while liest underneath my pen That honour given the poorest claim Unjustly was withheld. But if I thee 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 cast Too for my insufficient mind To grasp the fullest detail and The presence that image left behind That thou in all thy glory remain I fear my I would not mend For now upon reflection I That secretly I never did With title long or rich to bless But rather let in my Run wild the of who perhaps you were Before your soul your creation And deigned my mind and willing to stir For a noble and impassioned face well be but newborn unto this sphere But sure among a distant beauteous Thou hast known more than all who dwelleth And could tell much of places hast seen And battles fought for honours won and And how each service done a Queen Becomes a brighter than it cost The of your world, you may impart Desire to be neither Nor in the art Of living, where their were meant to taste A sort of feline stealth they about them And while a flame of innocence hold In dark you fear to be without them For knights of kinds are ne'er so bold Yes, in thy orb a maid may be a (Thou knew'st a friend would make upon news) Without a whisper or censure slight For lords are not afeared stock to lose no stock may be taken or be kept No property be granted, nor no No maiden may be while she slept Nor robbed of her freedom to What suits her best. No law is needed To cut the weed of from the stem No for the law to go unheeded For acts as these do not to them The gentlemen you raise are rarer For in their eyes, as in the of thine Such and thrilling mysteries fulfill The darkest corners of their design arrows, much like those I gave to thee Could not but graze the flank of cow Without him laugh. 'Tis much to see tickling their prey. I know not how They do encapture what they eat Save that perhaps their bright unfettered Have that what grows underneath their feet And in the trees above sustains A life intent on living tomorrow But how, I ask thee, most endearing Do lords and love where is no sorrow No strife to overcome, no uncleaned Of ardor long worn out its stay, to a mortal less divine Than that who stole thy breath away No hot forbidden kisses for to No heart affixed to age where heart is No ill intentioned suitors to "Still madam! Would'st kindly hold thy tongue!" sayest. "Your mistake has rash been made In living in combat with your kind Thou no other obstacle but these Thy hands are that have yet to find The hands that first hold them. Yet to please The hierarchy which you serve Thou dost believe that love in grows That happiness in love is not But in thy thou mak'st light of woes For even were there a cloudy day No tempest to what love had bound The galley which the moon in her sway Could not but 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 escape the fate thou tremblest on?" And in this way and my paper spoke O, fierce, savage, gentle bright Thou who I've given breath my has broke You had but not the right I but see the lips that dare not breathe They are so beautiful and pressing I but touch the wings that underneath Are made so thy heart forgets to beat Perhaps I should have more for which to You came to my domain and brought For though I be the heart alive The realm you speak of will not take me you no pity? Can'st thou not perceive That I, a blinded beast, had but the To see where I would love? thou believe That ere you came I was but disguise? I know the of music reveals The things no human heart could I render'st thou for all torment feels And longed to be thy faithful friend Yea, as a mushroom did I wait I willed to thee my to overtake I shivered at each passing horse's And so I slept to suddenly Alas, my love, wilt kiss me goodbye? The lingering night aid thee on thy travels craft but one thing more, a crow to fly Before to tell me how thy tale I say, thou art complete and to go What holds thee save one who lives no longer? For I given thee the life you know The I become, thou art the stronger And in your antique words your clear Was that thou art gone I should dismay thee, "Your thought mistook me, for I meant To thee not but offerest to stay. For true, I did in my own realm Partake of that pure love of I told thee But be my guide and me at the helm And I shall, in the cloak you wrought, thee And journey to the of all the earth For hast proved more generous and wise Than all we faeries, moons and stars are For we not but living in your eyes." Dear nameless knight, if thou be mine own And leave thy dragons for a while thou Find in these arms within which thou hast A better reason the which thou say'st But with your hand you pointeth; I so And 'tis not plain to me, I did draw it way thou dost intend for us to go Sure in the it is of she who saw it Yet still perhaps I made thee to one would do if one were asked to choose 'Tween back and forwards. Be friend or lover Perhaps you to be my favorite muse Thou thy armor; fight but when you must see'st the blade of truth below thy knee Use arrows all whom you mistrust But thou ride'st my way, aim one at me Your world is yours as ere it was Your time beneath my busy hand spent I've made a thing I love; I ask no And never shall redeem the I lent Me in my and thyself in thine Two petals on the same and silent And I'll welcome thee in mine dear creation was my finest hour