JUST like Hope is yonder bow, That from the center bends so low, Where bright prismatic colours shew How gems of heavenly radiance glow, Just like Hope! Yet if, to the illusion new, The pilgrim should the arch pursue, Farther and farther from his view, It flies; then melts in chilling dew, Just like Hope! Ye fade, ethereal hues! for ever, While, cold Reason, thy endeavour Sooths not that sad heart, which never Glows with Hope. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MATER AMABILIS by EMMA LAZARUS TO A MOUSE, ON TURNING HER UP IN HER NEST WITH THE PLOUGH by ROBERT BURNS WARREN'S ADDRESS [TO THE AMERICANS] [AT BUNKER HILL] [JUNE 17, 1775] by JOHN PIERPONT SONNET: 18 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE EPITAPHS by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |