WHEN first I looked into thy glorious eyes, And saw, with their unearthly beauty pained. Heaven deepening within heaven, like the skies Of autumn nights without a shadow stained, I stood as one whom some strange dream enthralls; For, far away in some lost life divine, Some land which every glorious dream recalls, A spirit looked on me with eyes like thine. Even now, though death has veiled their starry light, And closed their lids in his relentless night, -- As some strange dream, remembered in a dream, Again I see, in sleep, their tender beam; Unfading hopes their cloudless azure fill, Heaven deepening within heaven, serene and still. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DOMESDAY BOOK: THE CONVENT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS ODE ON THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER by JORGE MANRIQUE SONNET: 25 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE FROGS: THE FATAL OIL-FLASK by ARISTOPHANES THE NEW CRUSADE by KATHARINE LEE BATES POSTHUMOUS REMORSE by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE BRITANNIA'S PASTORALS: BOOK 1. THE THIRD SONG by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) |