MY mistress, where sits she? <br /> <br />What is it that charms? <br />The absent she's rocking, <br /> <br />Held fast in her arms. <br /> <br />In pretty cage prison'd <br /> <br />She holds a bird still; <br />Yet lets him fly from her, <br /> <br />Whenever he will. <br /> <br />He pecks at her finger, <br /> <br />And pecks at her lips, <br />And hovers and flutters, <br /> <br />And round her he skips. <br /> <br />Then hasten thou homeward, <br /> <br />In fashion to be; <br />If thou hast the maiden, <br /> <br />She also hath thee.<br /><br />Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/reciprocal/
