ERE Love from barren Chaos drew the skies, Piercing its womb that hid the light of day, Beneath primaeval earth's and water's sway The shapeless Heavens lay whelmed, in dark disguise. Even so my sluggish soul, too dull to rise, Within this body's gross and heavy clay Without or form or feature shapeless lay Until Love's arrow pierced it from your eyes. Love brought me life and power and truth and light, Made pure my inmost heart through his control, And shaped my being to a perfect whole. He warms my veins, he lights my thought, his flight Snatches me upward, till in Heaven's height I find the ordered pathway of my soul. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 27 by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN THE RABBIT by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS DARBY AND JOAN by FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY VENICE; A FRAGMENT by GEORGE GORDON BYRON THE PLEASURES OF HOPE: 2 by THOMAS CAMPBELL |