Reluctant Summer! once, a maid <br />Full easy of access, <br />In many a bee-frequented shade <br />Thou didst thy lover bless. <br />Divinely unreproved I played, <br />Then, with each liberal tress-- <br />And art thou grown at last afraid <br />Of some too close caress? <br /> <br />Or deem'st that if thou shouldst abide <br />My passion might decay? <br />Thou leav'st me pining and denied, <br />Coyly thou say'st me nay. <br />Ev'n as I woo thee to my side, <br />Thou, importuned to stay, <br />Like Orpheus' half-recovered bride <br />Ebb'st from my arms away.<br /><br />William Watson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/reluctant-summer/
