The Ring of Amethyst

Chapter 72: LOVE SONG.

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About This Book

A collection of lyric poems that moves between intimate reflections on love, longing, and domestic feeling and wider meditations on faith, doubt, memory, and artistic purpose. Short, varied pieces contrast joy and pain, sometimes adopting persona or dedicatory addresses and sometimes using nature and classical imagery to frame emotional states. The overall tone balances tender sincerity with contemplative restraint, turning commonplace moments and moral concerns into compact, image-driven meditations on the inner life.

LOVE SONG.

Dreaming of love and fame, sweetheart,

I dreamed that a sunbeam shone

For a wavering instant, and where it played

A hundred flowers had grown.

The sunshine flitting so soon away

Was a smile thou hadst given me;

And the flowers that bloomed in the world for aye,

Were the songs I wrote for thee.

Waking to love and life, sweetheart,

I saw fair flowers fade;

While still from the measureless heavens above

The flickering sunshine played.

The flowers fading from all men’s sight

Were the songs they had heard from me;

And the light that illumined the world to them,

Was a single smile from thee!