Not in a Silver Casket

Not in a silver casket cool with pearls

Or rich with red corundum or with blue, / Locked, and the key withheld, as other girls

Have given their loves, I give my love to you;

Not in a lovers'-knot, not in a ring

Worked in such fashion, and the legend plain-

Semper fidelis, where a secret spring

Kennels a drop of mischief for the brain:

Love in the open hand, no thing but that, / Ungemmed, unhidden, wishing not to hurt, / As one should bring you cowslips in a hat

Swung from the hand, or apples in her skirt, / I bring you, calling out as children do:

"Look what I have! -- And these are all for you. "