Excerpt from Poems I have covered your body with kisses, I have bathed that dear bosom in tears, As we shared in our joys together, AS we Shared in our griefs and our fears; And the riddle is, which was the sweeter, As visions of both will arise, The pulsating Charms Of your Parian arms, Or the sympathy there in your eyes. For never depression had sought me, But you 'had an adyne near; And never a head pillowed softer On a breast SO more splendidly dear; And never swan eyes SO effulgent, Or hands uttered tenderly, quite I must t perpend, lest my reason have end, An existence withouten your light. If the earth had stood still in that heaven, And, pausing, all time had destroyed, That period could t have buried, Those moments we two have enjoyed: For they on their shimmering pinions, Like birds on their own airs would rise, To an inchoate Clime, lacking ught but a time TO adjust orbit-paths in its Skies. Then these moments triumphant, remembered, Not alone for their sweet, but their tears, Its time would become and the minutes Be magnified into its years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.