English poem
II.— FELICITY
by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1823–1896)
To marry her and take her home! The poet, painting pureness, tells Of lilies; figures power by Rome; And each thing shows by something else. But through the songs of poets look, And who so lucky to have found In universal nature's book A likeness for a life so crown'd! Here they speak best who best express Their inability to speak, And none are strong, but who confess With happy skill that they are weak.