Love

No and Yes

by Thomas Ashe 1836–1889

From Victorian Songs (1895)

Love

If I could choose my paradise,
And please myself with choice of bliss,
Then I would have your soft blue eyes
And rosy little mouth to kiss!
Your lips, as smooth and tender, child,
As rose-leaves in a coppice wild.

If fate bade choose some sweet unrest,
To weave my troubled life a snare,
Then I would say "her maiden breast
And golden ripple of her hair;"
And weep amid those tresses, child,
Contented to be thus beguiled.

MLA

Ashe, Thomas. “No and Yes.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ashe/0/.

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