SEEST thou me pass—swift with my angels out of heaven propelled— All stars and lightning in a fluid train? Seest thou me pass, I say? His brows, the Lord's, in heaven are glorious; His eyes give light there, fashioning and beholding rapt all forms divine; His mighty loins are plunged in night and shadow. And I— I am the lightning of the generations through them, Seed of the worlds to be. He is the Lord, in moment of creation, fixed everlasting, The Universe entire—or little flower starred in ecstasy; And I, orgasmic, fierce, His swift deliverance. [Seest thou me pass—all stars and lightning in a fluid train? From heaven down into chaos seest thou me pass, I say?] | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EVENING IN ENGLAND by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 31. HER GIFTS by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 4. THE PASSIONS by JOHN ARMSTRONG SEEING A STRANGE WOMAN DEAD by A. G. BECKMANN FULLNESS OF THE BIBLE by H. J. BETTS FIFTY YEARS SPENT by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT THE CHESS-PLAYER by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE |