Love's Palace



IF the woodland and the heath,   
And the hedgerows thick with may,   
And the weed-flowers underneath,   
And the clambering honey-sheath,   
And the mosses green and grey,           
  
And the flecks of sun and shade   
Lying light upon the grass,   
And the ripple in the glade,   
And the songs that float and fade,   
And the joys that come and pass,           
  
If the dog-rose choir of bees   
Whirling golden in the sun,   
And the sweetness of the breeze,   
And the joists of mighty trees,   
And the hoods of purple nun,           
  
If this fabric of delight   
Spread around to make the spring   
Could but read my wish aright,   
Could but aid me as it might,   
Could obey me while I sing,           
  
I should build thee such a bower   
As the fairies built of old,   
Walled with every fragrant flower,   
And with many a mighty tower   
Domed with purest morning gold.           
  
And thy breath should draw the rose,   
And thine ears be filled with sweet   
Such as never poet knows,   
Such as tricks him while it flows,   
And eludes his bar and beat.           
  
And thy couch should be more soft   
Than the silk of Eastern days,   
Than the rainbow’s flush aloft,   
Than the dawning clouds that oft   
Melt before us as we gaze.           
  
There my dearest love should rest   
Like a bird upon the bough,   
Like a fledgeling in its nest,   
Like her head upon my breast,   
Like my kiss upon her brow.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABAAB CDCCD EFEEF GHCGH IJIIJ KLKKL XMNNM OPOOP
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,405
Words 240
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5

Arthur Maquarie

Arthur Maquarie was born in Dubbo, NSW, as Arthur Frank Macquarie Mullens, later changed his name by deed poll. After graduating from the University of Sydney in 1895 he worked in England as a freelance writer, in Italy as a teacher of English, and also lived in France and Spain; he was active in the Royal Society of Literature and organised the British committee which promoted intellectual harmony among the Allies in the First World War. He wrote several plays on medieval subjects and several volumes of lyrical verse, but is most significant for the assistance he provided to Henry Lawson in London in 1900-1; as well as writing articles about Lawson which helped introduce him to literary London, Maquarie arranged meetings with editors, publishers and literary agents, and lived with Lawson while part of the Joe Wilson sequence was being written. Lawson's poignant portrait of Maquarie's struggle as a hack writer in London forms part of recently discovered material and is included in Brian Kiernan's The Essential Henry Lawson (1982). more…

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