Page:Poems and lyrics of the joy of earth.djvu/110

Rh Sweeter unpossessed, have I said of her my sweetest?
 * Not while she sleeps: while she sleeps the jasmine breathes,

Luring her to love; she sleeps; the starry jasmine
 * Bears me to her pillow under white rose-wreaths.

Yellow with birdfoot-trefoil are the grass-glades;
 * Yellow with cinquefoil of the dew-gray leaf;

Yellow with stone-crop; the moss-mounds are yellow;
 * Blue-necked the wheat sways, yellowing to the sheaf:

Green-yellow bursts from the copse the laughing yaffle;
 * Sharp as a sickle is the edge of shade and shine:

Earth in her heart laughs looking at the heavens,
 * Thinking of the harvest: I look and think of mine.

This I may know: her dressing and undressing
 * Such a change of light shows as when the skies in sport

Shift from cloud to moonlight; or edging over thunder
 * Slips a ray of sun; or sweeping into port