A Song by Helen Maria Williams

A Song 

by Helen Maria Williams

                         I

No riches from his scanty store

   My lover could impart;

He gave a boon I valued more —

   He gave me all his heart!

                         II

His soul sincere, his generous worth,

   Might well this bosom move;

And when I asked for bliss on earth,

   I only meant his love.

                         III

But now for me, in search of gain

   From shore to shore he flies;

Why wander riches to obtain,

   When love is all I prize?

                         IV

The frugal meal, the lowly cot

   If blest my love with thee!

That simple fare, that humble lot,

   Were more than wealth to me.

                         V

While he the dangerous ocean braves,

   My tears but vainly flow:

Is pity in the faithless waves

   To which I pour my woe?

                         VI

The night is dark, the waters deep,

   Yet soft the billows roll;

Alas! at every breeze I weep —

   The storm is in my soul.

When someone gives their heart that is the treasure. A link to read more about this poet is here. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/helen-maria-williams

On a Dream by John Keats

On a Dream

BY JOHN KEATS

As Hermes once took to his feathers light,

    When lulled Argus, baffled, swoon’d and slept,

So on a Delphic reed, my idle spright

    So play’d, so charm’d, so conquer’d, so bereft

The dragon-world of all its hundred eyes;

    And seeing it asleep, so fled away,

Not to pure Ida with its snow-cold skies,

    Nor unto Tempe where Jove griev’d that day;

But to that second circle of sad Hell,

    Where in the gust, the whirlwind, and the flaw

Of rain and hail-stones, lovers need not tell

    Their sorrows—pale were the sweet lips I saw,

Pale were the lips I kiss’d, and fair the form

I floated with, about that melancholy storm.

I love the language and tempo, read it out loud if only to yourself it is magical.  To read more about him and his poetry there is a link.http://www.poets.org/poet/php/prmPID/66