Serenade

Serenade to love...

Dear love, you are a snow-girt swan who glides

    Along the pearly traces of a lake

For in your breast, unearthly grace resides:

    A power, like morn’s bud, wide and awake.

 

You are a nymph who rests within the ebb

    Of some cool stream, whose smile traces stars.

Dear love, within your beauty’s twining web,

    I have been tangled. Your bright crest unbars

 

With fairest summer weather and spring nights,

    And autumn afternoons, stowed with the dreams,

Of golden evenings, and of winter sprites

    Which wend around the forests, wrapped in beams.

 

Dear love, your heart’s as soft as flakes of snow

    That dot the mountains and the moors. Fresh dew

Which drips across the flower’s golden brow

    Is all the gentleness that makes you, you.

 

Have we ne’er met before, maid of the lea,

    Where gleaming, murm’rous brooks all gently moan,

What would have isolation left of me?

    If not for you, I would have died alone.

Author's Note

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Reviews

[Wuji]

Somewhere in between Shellely and Keats, a good touch. I never tire to stars or swans myself :P

[Ahena MK]

really good.........
job well done
ahena :)

[Solilokiss]

Gleb... This is astounding great. I didn't even recognise it was in rhyme, it read so fluidly and fluently. This is a master piece. This is incredible. It is classic and amazing. You are a fine, fine poet and it is with great pleasure to have this master piece. How honored we are to have you here. Now I'll continue being speechless and awed of this creation. Absolutely, tremendously well done. Okay, now speechless.

[Pryde Foltz]

With fairest summer weather and spring nights,
And autumn afternoons, stowed with the dreams,
Of golden evenings, and of winter sprites
Which wend around the forests, wrapped in beams.

Elegant, splendid and heart-felt. Bravo,

[Nirego]

Great all round. Graceful and delicate.

[Joyce S. Greene]

A lovely poem, Gleb. The rhyme and rhythm accentuate the soft tone and romantic theme of your verse. Very well written.

[Hypnos]

Very well done my friend. I enjoyed the interesting setting you painted with this poem.