Through the foul arch of night On airy pinions white It came to me, And in the smile of day All beautiful it lay, Yet pale to see. "Whence comest thou?" I cried; A silence soft replied: "From regions vast -- The ocean gave me birth And thence through heaven to earth My spirit passed." As o'er an elfin bright I bent with strange delight, But all too near; For lo! my breathing warm Dissolved the magic charm Into a tear! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO DOCTOR EMPIRIC by BEN JONSON GLOIRE DE DIJON by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE VOICES OF THE NIGHT: PRELUDE by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW AFTER LONG SILENCE by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS TO HIS LYRE by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS |