Anne Hathaway

HIS Eve of Women! She, whose mortal lot Was linked to an Immortal's unaware, With Love's lost Eden in her blissful air, Perchance would greet him in this blessed spot. No shadow of the coming days durst blot, The flower-like face, so innocently fair, As lip met lip, and lily arms, all bare, Clung round him in a perfect lover's knot. Was not this Anne the flame-like daffodil Of Shakespeare's March, whose maiden beauty took His senses captive? Thus the stripling brook Mirrors a wild flower nodding by the mill, Then grows a river in which proud cities look, And with a land's load widens seaward still