Dagonet's Love-Song

by: Ernest Rhys (Author)

from: The Leaf Burners and Other Poems (109)  1918

A QUEEN lived in the South;
And music was her mouth,
And sunshine was her hair
By day, and all the night
The drowsy embers there
Remember'd still the light:
     My soul, was she not fair!

But for her eyes--they made
An iron man afraid;
Like sky-blue pools they were,
Watching the sky that knew
Itself transmuted there
Light blue, or deeper blue:
     My soul, was she not fair!

The lifting of her hands
Made laughter in the lands
Where the sun is, in the South:
But my soul learnt sorrow there
In the secrets of her mouth,
Her eyes, her hands, her hair:
     Oh soul, was she not fair!