Love Bade Me Welcome

In the grace of wit, of tongue, and face ~ Sir Walter Raleigh

 

Her face, her tongue, her wit, so fair, so sweet, so sharp,
First bent, then drew, now hit, mine eye, mine ear, my heart:
Mine eye, mine ear, my heart, to like, to learn, to love,
Her face, her tongue, her wit, doth lead, doth teach, doth move:
Her face, her tongue, her wit, with beams, with sound, with art,
Doth blind, doth charm, doth rule, mine eye, mine ear, my heart.

Mine eye, mine ear, my heart, with life, with hope, with skill,
Her face, her tongue, her wit, doth feed, doth feast, doth fill:
O face, O tongue, O wit, with frowns, with cheeks, with smart,
Wring not, vex not, wound not, mine eye, mine ear, my heart:
This eye, this ear, this heart, shall joy, shall bind, shall swear
Your face, your tongue, your wit, to serve, to love, to fear.

 

Ode To The Sea
 
Sonnet 73
Sonnet 129
 
Love
Sonnet 29
In the grace of wit, of tongue, and face
Sonnet 30
Slow, slow, fresh fount
Sighs
Now Winter Nights Enlarge
Sonnet 52
Follow thy fair sun
The given heart
 
A Light That Never Dies
 
The Plagues
 
How the Whale Got His Throat
 
I Remember, I Remember
A Parental Ode
My Delight and Thy Delight
The Quality of Mercy
Code Poem for the French Resistance
 

Poetry Please

High Flight
Range-Finding
Naming of Parts
Vergissmeinnicht
Daffodils
 
Excerpt From The Random House AudioBook
 

Catching Life by the Throat

As I Walked Out One Evening
 

Alexander Pushkin - The Place Of The Poet

Excerpt from Eugene Onegin
 

The English Patient Audiobook

Excerpt