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Sidney Lanier

I asked my heart to say
Some word whose worth my love’s devoir might pay
      Upon my Lady’s natal day.

      Then said my heart to me:
‘Learn from the rhyme that now shall come to thee
      What fits thy Love most lovingly.’

      This gift that learning shows;
For, as a rhyme unto its rhyme-twin goes,
      I send a rose unto a Rose.


Philadelphia, 1876.

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From Poems | Written c. 1876

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