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THE TREASURE-SHIP
My heart is freighted full of love,
As full as any argosy,
With gems below and gems above,
And ready for the open sea;
For the wind is blowing summerly.
As full as any argosy,
With gems below and gems above,
And ready for the open sea;
For the wind is blowing summerly.
Full strings of nature's beaded pearl,
Sweet tears! composed in amorous ties
And turkis-lockets, that no churl
Hath fashioned out mechanic-wise,
But all made up of thy blue eyes.
Sweet tears! composed in amorous ties
And turkis-lockets, that no churl
Hath fashioned out mechanic-wise,
But all made up of thy blue eyes.
And girdles wove of subtle sound,
And thoughts not trusted to the air,
Of antique mould,—the same as bound,
In Paradise, the primal pair,
Before Love's arts and niceness were.
And thoughts not trusted to the air,
Of antique mould,—the same as bound,
In Paradise, the primal pair,
Before Love's arts and niceness were.
And carcanets of living sighs;
Gums that have dropped from Love's own stem,
And one small jewel most I prize—
The darling gaud of all of them—
I wot, so rare and fine a gem
Ne'er glowed on Eastern anadem.
Gums that have dropped from Love's own stem,
And one small jewel most I prize—
The darling gaud of all of them—
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Ne'er glowed on Eastern anadem.
I've cased the rubies of thy smiles,
In rich and triply-plated gold;
But this no other wealth defiles,
Itself itself can only hold—
The stealthy kiss on Maple-wold.
In rich and triply-plated gold;
But this no other wealth defiles,
Itself itself can only hold—
The stealthy kiss on Maple-wold.
1839.
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