Listen by E.E. Cummings (Poems 1923-1954 First Complete Edition, page 26)

listen
beloved
i dreamed
    it appeared that you thought to
    escape me and became a great
    lily atilt on
    insolent
    waters      but i was aware of
    fragrance and i came riding upon
    a horse of porphyry       into the
    waters i rode down the red
    horse shrieking     from splintering
    foam caught you clutched you upon my
    mouth
listen
beloved
    i dreamed     in my dream you had
    desire to thwart me and became
    a little bird and hid
    in a tree of tall marble
    from a great way i distinguished
    singing and i came
    riding upon a scarlet sunset
    trampling the night       easily
    from the shocked impossible
    tower i caught
    you strained you
    broke you upon my blood
listen
    beloved i dreamed
    i thought you would have deceived
    me and became a star in the kingdom
    of heaven
    through day and space i saw you close
    your eyes       and i came riding
    upon a thousand crimson years arched with agony
    i reined them in tottering before
    the throne and as
    they shied at the automaton moon from
    the transplendent hand of sombre god
    i picked you
as an apple is picked by the little peasants for their girls