Summer of Love

Chapter 20: TRIBUTE

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About This Book

A compact collection of lyrical poems that celebrates romantic devotion, natural imagery, and spiritual yearning, blending playful fairyland pieces, meditative prayers, and occasional urban portraits. The poet favors traditional verse forms such as villanelles and ballades and mixes classical and religious allusion with sensuous descriptions of gardens, moonlight, and birds. Short narrative ballads and elegiac tributes alternate with intimate love lyrics, producing a varied but unified mood of ardor, reverence, and pastoral charm.

TRIBUTE

Because my Love has lips that taste of glory,

That breathe of love, that are as red as wine,

My days and nights are as a pleasant story

Told in a valley sweet with rose and vine.

Because my Love has hair that smells of flowers,

That is as soft and cool as forest shade,

Therefore the tale of all my blissful hours

Be writ in gold and at her footstool laid.