The golden gates of sleep unbar Where strength and beauty, met together, Kindle their image like a star In a sea of glassy weather! Night, with all thy stars look down; Darkness, weep thy holiest dew; Never smiled the inconstant moon On a pair so true. Let eyes not see their own delight; -- Haste, swift hour, and thy flight Oft renew. Fairies, sprites, and angels, keep her! Holy stars, permit no wrong! And return to wake the sleeper. Dawn, - ere it be long. O joy! O fear! what will be done In the absence of the sun? Come along! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OCTAVES: 21 by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON THE PORTENT by HERMAN MELVILLE THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY KEARNY AT SEVEN PINES [MAY 31, 1862] by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 27. AS-SAMI'H by EDWIN ARNOLD |