'T is love that moveth the celestial spheres In endless yearning for the Changeless One, And the stars sing together, as they run To number the innumerable years. 'T is love that lifteth through their dewy tears The roses' beauty to the heedless sun, And with no hope, nor any guerdon won, Love leads me on, nor end of love appears. For the same breath that did awake the flowers, Making them happy with a joy unknown, Kindled my light and fixed my spirits's goal; And the same hand that reined the flying hours And chained the whirling earth to Phoebus' throne, In love's eternal orbit keeps the soul. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN A BREATH; TO THE WILLIAMSON BROTHERS by CARL SANDBURG ODE FOR MEMORIAL DAY by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR SONNET: WRITTEN ON THE DAY THAT MR. LEIGH HUNT LEFT PRISON by JOHN KEATS THE SOUND OF THE SEA; SONNET by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW DESCRIPTIONS by VIRGINIA A. ALLIN LOVES MONARCHIE by JOSEPH BEAUMONT |