To My Wife: With a Copy of My Poems
I can write no stately proem
- As a prelude to my lay;
From a poet to a poem
- I would dare to say.
For if of these fallen petals
- One to you seem fair,
Love will waft it till it settles
- On your hair.
And when wind and winter harden
- All the loveless land,
It will whisper of the garden,
- You will understand.