She closed the door, she panted, all akin

To spirits of the air and visions wide;

No uttered syllable, or, woe betide!

But to her heart her heart was voluble,

Paining with eloquence her balmy side;

As though a tongueless nightingale should swell

Her throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled in her dell.

A casement high and triple-arched there was,

All garlanded with carven imageries

Of fruits and flowers and bunches of knot-grass,