I FROM calm beyond our inmost thought Came the girl-spirit, childly-wise; From spaces of the blue she brought This earnest candour of her eyes; From heavenly fields her soul uprose, By fateful impulse urged to roam,— Looked on the wheeling worlds, and chose Our love her magnet, Earth her home. II Awhile, awhile these years shall flow, In these soft limbs her soul be pent, Till Earth the lore of love and woe Hath taught, and left her innocent: Then fairer yet, then yet more dear We hold our child in surer stay;— What else was Love that lit us @3here@1 But glimmering dawn of deathless day? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MARATHON, SELECTION by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES IMMORTALS by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN TREK FEVER by JULIA FIELD BROWN HAYING TIME IN VERMONT by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY DAS EWIG-WEIBLICHE by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE ON THE REFUSAL OF OXFORD TO SUBSCRIDBE TO HIS TRANSLATION by WILLIAM COWPER |