If you use ever so little too much, the effect is not pleasant.

But if you use exactly the proper quantity, and no more, there is no perfume which is more lovely.

"Shy as musk" thus refers to that kind of girlish modesty which never commits a fault even by the measure of a grain--beautiful shyness incapable of being anything but beautiful.

Nevertheless the comparison must be confessed one which should be felt rather than explained.
The second of the three promised quotations shall be from Robert Browning.
There is one feeling, not often touched upon by poets, yet peculiar to lovers, that is here treated--the desire when you are very happy or when you are looking at anything attractive to share the pleasure of the moment with the beloved.

But it seldom happens that the wish and the conditions really meet.