Twin stars of light! whose blended rays Illuminate the darkest road Where fortune's roving exile strays, When doubt and care the wanderer load, And drive him far from joy's abode. Propitious Love and smiling Hope! Be you my guides, and guardian powers, If, doom'd with adverse fate to cope, I quit in Honour's rigid hours These dear, these bliss-devoted towers. Yet here, O still, most radiant! here (Attend this prayer of fond concern) To beauty's bosom life endear, Presaging as ye brightly burn The rapture of my blest return. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HUMAN LIFE: ON THE DENIAL OF IMMORTALITY by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE DISCONTENTS IN DEVON by ROBERT HERRICK EIGHT O'CLOCK by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN THE CREMATION OF SAM MCGEE by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE THE ENAMEL GIRL by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD KNOWLEDGE by HENRY DAVID THOREAU TO A LADY, WITH SOME PAINTED FLOWERS by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |