A sonnet

[docteri]

This is one of the last poems I can find.  I wrote it as an assignment for an English lit class in college.  I think my professor was shocked that a biology major could write this in one day.  Heh.

When on my lover's face I cast my eyes
And think of all the trust he may possess,
My heart swells up with joy, and all the cries
Of lonely nights fade into nothingness.
Upon a silver cloud he came to me;
A dream, I thought, a dream he would fulfill;
I cleared my starry orbs, as if to see
That he may disappear, but stood he still.
And then me he engrossed, this ray of gold
In human form and manner and such ways
That wold claim any heart of young or old;
With me he will endure for all my days.
To all the gods above, I pray:  be kind,
For love comparable I'll never find.