A GOTHIC window, where a damask curtain

Made the blank daylight shadowy and uncertain:

A slab of agate ore four Eagle-talons

Held trimly up and neatly taught to balance:

A porcelain dish, o’er which in many a cluster

Black grapes hung down, dead ripe and without lustre:

A melon cut in thin, delicious slices:

A cake that seemed mosaic-work in spices:

Two China cups with golden tulips sunny,

And rich inside with chocolate like honey:

And she and I the banquet-scene completing

With dreamy words—and very pleasant eating.