In The Gold Room

Oscar Wilde

A HARMONY.

          HER ivory hands on the ivory keys
            Strayed in a fitful fantasy,
          Like the silver gleam when the poplar trees
            Rustle their pale leaves listlessly,
          Or the drifting foam of a restless sea
          When the waves show their teeth in the flying breeze.

          Her gold hair fell on the wall of gold
            Like the delicate gossamer tangles spun
          On the burnished disk of the marigold,
            Or the sun-flower turning to meet the sun                 10
            When the gloom of the jealous night is done,
          And the spear of the lily is aureoled.

          And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine
            Burned like the ruby fire set
          In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine,
            Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate,
            Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet
          With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.

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