She Says She Lo'es Me Best of a'
written in 1793
She Says She Lo'es Me Best of a' - meaning Summary
Idealized Love in Nature
This short romantic lyric presents the speaker�s admiring portrait of Chloris, focusing on her physical charm and graceful movement. He idealizes her features and frames desire in classical language of conquest and willing bondage, then shifts to a rustic setting where quiet landscapes amplify intimate vows. The poem repeats a confident assurance of mutual love, mixing sensual detail with pastoral preference for moonlit valleys over urban show. It is a straightforward celebration of reciprocal affection and the speaker�s wish for private devotion with the beloved he calls Chloris.
Read Complete AnalysesSae flaxen were her ringlets, Her eyebrows of a darker hue, Bewitchingly o'erarching Twa laughing e'en o' bonie blue; Her smiling, sae wyling, Wad make a wretch forget his woe; What pleasure, what treasure, Unto these rosy lips to grow: Such was my Chloris' bonie face, When first that bonie face I saw; And aye my Chloris' dearest charm, She says, she lo'es me best of a'. Like harmony her motion, Her pretty ancle is a spy, Betraying fair proportion, Wad make a saint forget the sky: Sae warming, sae charming, Her fautless form and gracefu' air; Ilk feature - auld Nature Declar'd that she could do nae mair: Hers are the willing chains o' love, By conquering Beauty's sovereign law; And still my Chloris' dearest charm, She says, she lo'es me best of a'. Let others love the city, And gaudy shew, at sunny noon; Gie me the lonely valley, The dewy eve, and rising moon Fair beaming, and streaming, Her silver light the boughs amang; While falling, recalling, The amorous thrush concludes his sang; There, dearest Chloris, wilt thou rove By wimpling burn and leafy shaw, And hear my vows o' truth and love, And say, thou lo'es me best of a'.
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