Sonnet 477

For what is love if not the sight of you,

Bright almond eyes, fair skin of lustrous dawn,

Broad gentle smile that warms hearts through and through,

Sweet voice in which all pleasing notes are found.

Lithe movements that sport female liberty

And yet a presence firm with soft command,

Proud virtue that archangels blush to see,

Compassion true that knows no finer hand.

I thank the gods that made the female form,

Then saved the best and blest it once again

Placing her by my side to take my arm,

And sing to me each day in glad refrain.

As gods permit, your beauty will live on,

A vision quite, enshrined here in my song.

Loubert S Suddaby poems