Alack-A-Day for poverty!
What jewels my mind doth give to thee!
Carved agate stone porphyrogene,
Green emerald and beryl green,
Deep sapphine and pale amethyst,
Sly opal, cloaking with a mist
The levin of its love elate,
Shy brides' pearls, flushed and delicate,
Sea-colored lapis lazuli,
Sardonyx and chalcedony,
Enkindling diamond, candid gold,
Red rubies and red garnets bold:
And all their humors should be blent
In one intolerable blaze,
Barbaric, fierce, and opulent,
To dazzle him that dared to gaze!
Alack-a-day for poverty:
My rhymes are all you get of me!
Yet, if your heart receive, behold!
The worthless words are set in gold.
A Christmas Gift
Don Marquis
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Poem topics: I love you, heart, sea, receive, deep, bold, mind, gaze, stone, delicate, diamond, fierce, green, love, poverty, red, I miss you, gold, Valentine's Day, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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