WHAT IS LOVE
1
What is Love but pains disguise
That dares not tell its secret pain
That ever shrinks from hearts replies
And tries to be himself again
That shuns the crowd and noises rude
That tries to keep his thoughts unknown
And in the green of Solitude
Keeps loves dear bondage all his own
2
There is but one in all the world
Search earth or ocean clouds or air
With rosey cheek and ringlets curled
That seems to him so passing fair
Grace in her motion—music speaks
When e'er she talks or binds her hair
The fairest rose blooms on her cheeks
Her breasts the whitest lilies wear
3
The Poet is a silent thing
A man in love none knoweth where
He sees her in the boiling spring
At even on the blooming brere
He hears her in the songs of birds
He sees her in the evening sky
A shepherdess among the herds
A milkmaid wi' the grazing kye
