Pale white beauty

A beautiful, romantic poem, full of lovely, vivid and dramatic imagery but with a darkness to it, like a Gothic horror/Grimm's Fairy Tale which made it all the more magical - There are some wonderful lines, for example: "My hearts beat speaking in overflow" But my favourite lines/image has to be "There where the raven is feeding… His talons in the snow, There with a heart still bleeding" because of the vivid mental impression the reader gets of contrasting colours (raven black, snow white and blood red) aswell as contrasting textures (hard claw; soft snow; fragile heart). Both a striking image and also a good metaphor for emmotional hurt. JoHn - "Ex amore victoria". ("From love comes victory".)