Summer of Love

Chapter 26: ALCHEMY

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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.

ALCHEMY

I sang two little songs one day,

I sang them for a lady’s pleasure,

I took her praise for wreath of bay,

Her smile for largess beyond measure.

I sang out in the market square

And most folk could not understand;

One who by chance was passing there

Dropped down some silver in my hand.

Now since the songs I gave you, Sweet,

Have turned to silver fair and gleaming,

For your pleasaunce as is most meet

The silver turns to song and dreaming.