Her tiger-hearted and false and glorious,

With flower-sweet throat and float of warm hair odorous;

These sing I, and whatso else that burns and glows,

And is as fire and foam-flowers and the rose

And sun and stars and wan warm moon and snows.

Who hath said that I have not made my song to shine

With such bright words as seal a song to be divine?

Who hath said that I have not sweetness thereon spread

As gold of peerless honey is poured on bread?

Who hath said that I make not all men’s brains to ring,