I am that Adam who, with Snake for guest, Hid anguished eyes upon Eve's piteous breast. I am that Adam who, with broken wings, Fled from the Seraph's brazen trumpetings. Betrayed and fugitive, I still must roam A world where sin, and beauty, whisper of Home. Oh, from wide circuit, shall at length I see Pure daybreak lighten again on Eden's tree? Loosed from remorse and hope and love's distress, Enrobe me again in my lost nakedness? No more with worldless grief a loved one grieve, But to Heaven's nothingness re-welcome Eve? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE PINES AND THE SEA by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH THE PRAYER OF AGASSIZ by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER ODE: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH RAISING THE DEVIL; A LEGEND OF CORNELIUS AGRIPPA by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM LOVE IN THE DAWN by WILLIAM ROSE BENET AT FAREWELL by GEORGE W. BERGQUIST JUDGES: SONG OF DEBORAH; FRAGMENTS by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE |