 | Collected poems of Herman Melville |  |
THE LOVER AND THE SYRINGA BUSH
Like a lit-up Christmas Tree,Like a grotto pranked with spars,
Like white corals in green sea,
Like night's sky of crowded stars—
To me like these you show, Syringa
Such heightening power has love, believe,
While here by Eden's gate I linger
Love's tryst to keep, with truant Eve.
| Collected poems of Herman Melville | |