Sweet dimness of her loosened hair's downfall <br />About thy face; her sweet hands round thy head <br />In gracious fostering union garlanded; <br />Her tremulous smiles; her glances' sweet recall <br />Of love; her murmuring sighs memorial; <br />Her mouth's culled sweetness by thy kisses shed <br />On cheeks and neck and eyelids, and so led <br />Back to her mouth which answers there for all:— <br />What sweeter than these things, except the thing <br />In lacking which all these would lose their sweet:— <br />The confident heart's still fervour: the swift beat <br />And soft subsidence of the spirit's wing, <br />Then when it feels, in cloud-girt wayfaring, <br />The breath of kindred plumes against its feet?<br /><br />Dante Gabriel Rossetti<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-xxi-love-sweetness/
