OH power of love! so fearful and so fair -- Life of our life on earth, yet kin to care -- Oh! thou day-dreaming spirit who dost look Upon the future as the charmed book Of Fate were open'd to thine eyes alone -- Thou who dost cull, from moments stolen and gone Into eternity, memorial things, To deck the days to come -- thy revelings Were glorious and beyond all others. Thou Didst banquet upon beauty once; and now The ambrosial feast is ended! Let it be Enough to say "@3It was@1." Oh! upon me, From thy o'ershadowing wings ethereal, Shake odorous airs, so may my senses all Be spell-bound to thy service, beautiful power, And on the breath of every coming hour Send me faint tidings of the things that were. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INCOGNITA OF RAPHAEL by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER MOONRISE by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS THE WANING MOON by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY THE GREAT FIGURE by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 28. LOVE'S TRIUMPH OVER RICHES by PHILIP AYRES MEMORY'S VISIT by DEAN ALETTA BAILLIE HUMANE REVENGE by JOSEPH BEAUMONT ARCADIUS AND SEPHA by WILLIAM BOSWORTH ZOPHIEL; OR THE BRIDE OF SEVEN: CANTO 3. PALACE OF THE GNOMES by MARIA GOWEN BROOKS |