THE fierce exulting worlds, the motes in rays, The churlish thistles, scented briers, The wind-swept bluebells on the sunny braes, Down to the central fires, Exist alike in Love. Love is a sea Filling all the abysses dim Of lornest space, in whose deeps regally Suns and their bright broods swim. This mighty sea of Love, with wondrous tides, Is sternly just to sun and grain; 'Tis laving at this moment Saturn's sides, 'Tis in my blood and brain. All things have something more than barren use; There is a scent upon the brier, A tremulous splendour in the autumn dews, Cold morns are fringed with fire. The clodded earth goes up in sweet-breath'd flowers; In music dies poor human speech, And into beauty blow those hearts of ours When Love is born in each. Daisies are white upon the churchyard sod, Sweet tears the clouds lean down and give. The world is very lovely. O my God, I thank Thee that I live! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DAT GAL O' MINE by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON NIGHT AND DAY: 2 by ISAAC ROSENBERG THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 18. THE CHARM by THOMAS CAMPION THE BLACK PANTHER by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK A SUMMER SUMMARY by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS MY LITTLE CAPE COD MAIDEN by KATHERINE FINNIGAN ANDERSON THE BIRDS: THE HOOPOE'S CALL TO THE BIRDS by ARISTOPHANES BLUE CANTON-WARE by SARAH A. ATHEARN THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 26. ASKING FOR HER HEART. CHRISTMAS by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |