All in green went my love riding Love Quotes

This line is the first time that something in the poem isn't singing "before" the action. Instead, the heart is falling… um, dead. Why not something like "my heart sang before"? Why is the violence necessary? Well, that's part of the danger of love. As they say, it hurts.

Here's a funny twist to the story: although the speaker seems to concentrating on the "love" on a huge golden horse, he saves all of his loving adjectives for animals. Check out this description of the deer that the lover is ostensibly hunting.