So many love poems paint sumptuous pictures of affection, heavily laced with metaphor and allegory that we can easily forget the simple joys of love on earth. A touch, a simple look, the very fact of our beloved’s presence in our lives is often more than enough to stir the heart to joy and contentment. While the ecstatic hubris of love can (and should) inspire us to optimistic flights of fancy, it is the love simple that grounds us and makes the fact of our very existence on this good earth a bearable exercise in living.
It is to that end I would like to present to you My Beauty’s Home, By Lennox Amott. Originally published in 1883 in a book of poems by the same author entitled The Minstrel: A Collection of Poems, these verses celebrate the unique joys found in just experiencing the everyday moments spent with our lovers, lost in their beauty.
My Beauty’s Home
By Lennox Amott
My beauty lives in a cottage grey by a gentle river’s mouth,
A cottage grey by the lone sea-shore away in the sunny south,
Her eye’s as fair, oh fairer, than the moonlight o’er the sea,
And I love to look in my darling’s face as she sits and sings to me.I’m as happy as a monarch as she lingers at my side,
As we watch the far horizon of the ever-tossing tide,
While the cool refreshing zephyr bears her tresses in its train,
Now starting into motion and now slumbering again.She trips beside the waters on the distant yellow sand
While holy vespers steal across the ocean and the land,
And the sea bears the reflection of the worlds that roll above
And every breath of even seems to whisper but of love.Oh what to me is Glory, what is Power, what is Pride!
I care not for this bauble with my loved one at my side.
I want no other beauty than the beauty of her face,
What brighter vision is there than her comeliness and grace!
As you can see, not all love poems need be written using luxurious imagery, but indeed can sometimes be all the sweeter when grounded on Earth, if for no other reason than that is where your love is… Cheers, Marc
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackShe and Robert Browning, also a poet, wrote countless love letters to each other over the period of several years. Richard Poems
Thank you for sharing such a beautiful poem with us:)
I love poetry very much and this is a very nice read over my cup of tea.
What a beautiful poem! Thanks for sharing!
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