Then all mine eyes and lips and limbs were fire;

My tongue delirious throbbed a lawless lyre,

That harped loud words of laud for loveliness,

Inspired of such, but these I can not guess.

Then she, as pure as snows of peaks that keep

Sun-cloven crowns of virgin, vanquishing steep,

Frowned on me, and the thoughts, that in my brain

Had risen a glare of gems, set dull like rain,

And fair I spake her and with civil pain:

"'Thine, sweet, a devil's kindness which is given