I LOVE to gaze along the horizon's verge -- To strain my sight where steeped in golden-gray The sun-illumined vapors gently surge, To melt in measureless distances away. I gaze and gaze, till tears bedim my eyes, And tongueless fancies haunt me, vague and fond; Ethereal boundary! blending earth and skies, Ah! dost thou veil some marvellous realm beyond? Deep spirit of mine! thou, too, art strangely bound By far horizons, vaporous, dim, and vast; Beyond the range of whose enchanted round, Not even the genii of weird dreams have passed! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CASTAWAY by WILLIAM COWPER THE POOL by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE SIGN OF THE CROSS by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN FOUND' (FOR A PICTURE) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI THE CORDWRIGHT'S SONG by AUGUSTE DE BELLOY CREOLE SLAVE SONG by GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE |