Three Shadows - Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I looked and saw your eyes
In the shadow of your hair
As a traveller sees the stream
In the shadow of the wood;
And I said, “My faint heart sighs
Ah me! To linger there,
To drink deep and to dream
In that sweet solitude.”

I looked and saw your heart
In the shadow of your eyes,
As a seeker sees the gold
In the shadow of the stream;
And I said, “Ah me! What art
Should win the immortal prize,
Whose want must make life cold
And Heaven a hollow dream?”

I looked and saw your love
In the shadow of your heart,
As a diver sees the pearl
In the shadow of the sea;
And I murmured, not above
My breath, but all apart----
“Ah! You can love, true girl,
And is your love for me?”