Poems (Tennyson, 1833)/O Darling Room

by Alfred Tennyson

O DARLING ROOM.

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i.

O darling room, my heart's delight,

Dear room, the apple of my sight,
With thy two couches soft and white,
There is no room so exquisite,
No little room so warm and bright,
Wherein to read, wherein to write.

ii.

For I the Nonnenwerth have seen,

And Oberwinter's vineyards green,
Musical Lurlei; and between
The hills to Bingen have I been,
Bingen in Darmstadt, where the Rhene
Curves toward Mentz, a woody scene.

iii.

Yet never did there meet my sight,

In any town, to left or right,
A little room so exquisite,
With two such couches, soft and white;
Not any room so warm and bright,
Wherein to read, wherein to write.