This is the archive for Jewelry Poetry on the Beadshaper web site. To see the Beadshaper site, please click Beadshaper .The Poetry Piece for the month of April is a necklace named for the poem, The Ecstasy, by John Donne (1572-1631)
Where like a pillow on a bed,
A pregnant bank swelled up to rest
The violet's reclining head,
Sat we two, one another's best.
Our hands were firmly cemented
With a fast balm, which thence did spring;
Our eye beams twisted, and did thread
Our eyes upon one double string;
So to entergraft our hands, as yet
Was all our means to make us one,
And pictures on our eyes to get
Was all our propagation.
And if some lover, such as we,
Have heard this dialogue of one,
Let him mark us, he shall see
Small change, when we're to bodies gone.
