These eyes of mine, for all that they have seen, Have only made such small discovery . . . . A peacock's plumage dazzling in a preen, A sunset burning on a summer sea, Or mountains tippling in the wine of dawn, Or constellations in their awesome space; A sparrow and a daisy on the lawn; Your auraed presence, and your shining face . . . . For only when I close the shuttered sight Upon the panoramas of the mind, I half perceive what all revealing light Pours out in compensation for the blind, And half-discern sublimities that rise Before the inner vision of your eyes. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SHILOH; A REQUIEM by HERMAN MELVILLE EBB by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY ISAAC AND ARCHIBALD by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON CAROLINA [JANUARY, 1865] by HENRY TIMROD ON VENUS ARISING FROM THE SEA by ANTIPATER OF SIDON THE JEWISH MARTYRS by W. V. B. PSALM 57 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE |