@2W@1HILE on my bed I lay, watching the night, A sudden something flashed about the room, At brilliant battle with the giant gloom, Pulsating vividly,—a point of light; A brigand with a bosom; a roving knight Of old Romance, ready to reassume The quest of Roland, and challenge Roland's doom In the dead Dark;—a firefly, fleet and bright. So darts a tireless thought about my mind,— Luminous, magic, passionate with joy, Scourging and slaying the melancholy drove That fear its power, as the dust the wind; Within its heart of fire a wingéd boy Compelling, and his radiant name is Love. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1884 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI AH, BIND MY HANDS by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS EN TOUR; A SONG SEQUENCE: 5. THE EXILE by ALBERTA BANCROFT JAY A-PASS'D by WILLIAM BARNES PSALM 6. DOMINE NE IN FURORE by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE |