A gift for lovers...

What gift for passionate lovers shall we find?

Not flowers nor books of verse suffice for me,

but splinters of the odorous cedar-tree, and tufts of pine-buds, oozy in the wind;

Give me young shoots of aromatic rind, or sapphire, redolent of sand and sea;

for all such fragrances I deem to be fit with my sharp desires to be combined.

My heart is like a poet, whose one room, scented with latakia* faint and fine,

dried rose leaves, and spilt attar, and old wine, from curtained windows gathers its warm gloom

round all but one sweet picture, where incline his thoughts and fancies mingled with perfume.

by Sir Edmund William Gosse (courtesy of Poet's corner,the otherpages)

*aromatic Turkish tobacco

Artwork from allposters.com by Tann Mischa

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