I AM immortal! I know it! I feel it! Hope floods my heart with delight! Running on air, mad with life, dizzy, reeling, Upward I mount, -- faith is sight, life is feeling, Hope is the day-star of might! It was thy kiss, Love, that made me immortal, -- " 'kiss,' Love? Our lips have not met!" Ah, but I felt thy soul through night's portal Swoon on my lips at night's sweet, silent portal, Wild and as sweet as regret. Come, let us mount on the wings of the morning, Flying for joy of the flight, Wild with all longing, now soaring, now staying, Mingling like day and dawn, swinging and swaying, Hung like a cloud in the light: I am immortal! I feel it! I feel it! Love bears me up, love is might! Chance cannot touch me! Time cannot hush me! Fear, Hope, and Longing, at strife, Sink as I rise, on, on, upward forever, Gathering strength, gaining breath, -- naught can sever Me from the Spirit of Life! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OLD SUSAN by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE A DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO SHEPHERDS IN PRAISE OF ASTRAEA by MARY SIDNEY HERBERT THE MARCH INTO VIRGINIA by HERMAN MELVILLE ON THE DEATH OF LITTLE MAHALA ASHCRAFT by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY THE METEMPSYCHOSIS by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE VOLCANIC ISLAND by CLIFFORD BAX FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: LOVE IS WISER THAN AMBITION by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |