To A Poet (As one, the secret lover of a queen)

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Title:     To A Poet (As one, the secret lover of a queen)
Author: Richard Le Gallienne [More Titles by Le Gallienne]

As one, the secret lover of a queen,
Watches her move within the people's eye,
Hears their poor chatter as she passes by,
And smiles to think of what his eyes have seen;
The little room where love did 'shut them in,'
The fragrant couch whereon they twain did lie,
And rests his hand where on his heart doth die
A bruised daffodil of last night's sin:

So, Poet, as I read your rhyme once more
Here where a thousand eyes may read it too,
I smile your own sweet secret smile at those
Who deem the outer petals of the rose
The rose's heart--I, who through grace of you,
Have known it for my own so long before.

[The end]
Richard Le Gallienne's poem: To A Poet

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