The Complete Poetical Works of Shelley including materials never before printed in any edition of the poems Edited with textual notes by Thomas Hutchinson |
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 | The Complete Poetical Works of Shelley including materials never before printed in any edition of the poems |  |
TO THE QUEEN OF MY HEART
I
Shall we roam, my love,To the twilight grove,
When the moon is rising bright;
Oh, I'll whisper there,
In the cool night-air,
What I dare not in broad daylight!
II
I'll tell thee a partOf the thoughts that start
To being when thou art nigh;
And thy beauty, more bright
Than the stars' soft light,
Shall seem as a weft from the sky.
III
When the pale moonbeamOn tower and stream
Sheds a flood of silver sheen,
How I love to gaze
As the cold ray strays
O'er thy face, my heart's throned queen!
IV
Wilt thou roam with meTo the restless sea,
And linger upon the steep,
And list to the flow
Of the waves below
How they toss and roar and leap?
V
Those boiling waves,And the storm that raves
At night o'er their foaming crest,
Resemble the strife
That, from earliest life,
The passions have waged in my breast.
VI
Oh, come then, and roveTo the sea or the grove,
When the moon is rising bright;
And I'll whisper there,
In the cool night-air,
What I dare not in broad daylight.
| The Complete Poetical Works of Shelley including materials never before printed in any edition of the poems | |