COME to me, not as once thou camest, Night! With light and splendor up the gorgeous West; Easing the heart's rich sense of thee with sighs Sobbed out of all emotion on Love's breast; While the dark world waned wavering into rest, Half seen athwart the dim delicious light Of languid eyes: But softly, soberly; and dark -- more dark! Till my life's shadow lose itself in thine. Athwart the light of slowly-gathering tears, That come between me and the starlight, shine From distant melancholy deeps divine, While day slips downward through a rosy arc To other spheres. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RECONCILEMENT by JOHN SHEFFIELD SEADRIFT by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH A SONG: REVENGE AGAINST CYNTHIA by PHILIP AYRES TRAVELLER BY NIGHT, SELECTION by JOANNA BAILLIE JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 2 by WILLIAM BLAKE |