THOU central Eye of God, whose lidless ball Is vision all around, dispensing heat, And light and life, and regulating all With its pervading glance -- how calm and sweet Is thine unclouded setting! Thou dost greet, With parting smiles, the earth; night's shadows fall, But long where thou hast sunk shall splendours meet, And, lingering there, thy glories past recall. Oh! may my heart, like thee, unspotted, clear, Be as a sun to all within its sphere; And when beneath the earth I seek my doom, May I with smiling calmness disappear, And friendship's twilight, hovering o'er my tomb, Still bid my memory survive and bloom. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON THE NEW FORCES OF CONSCIENCE UNDER THE LONG PARLIAMENT by JOHN MILTON FOUND' (FOR A PICTURE) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI FOR A MARRIAGE OF SAINT KATHERINE [OR, CATHERINE] by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 21. REQUIEM by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON TO FORTUNE by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) |