HAVE I passed through Death's unconscious birth, In a dream the midnight bare? I look on another and fairer Earth: I breathe a wondrous air! A spirit of beauty walks the hills, A spirit of love the plain; The shadows are bright, and the sunshine fills The air with a diamond rain! Before my vision the glories swim, To the dance of a tune unheard: Is an angel singing where woods are dim, Or is it an amorous bird? Is it a spike of azure flowers, Deep in the meadows seen, Or is it the peacock's neck, that towers Out of the spangled green? Is a white dove glancing across the blue, Or an opal taking wing? For my soul is dazzled through and through, With the splendor of the Spring. Is it she that shines, as never before, The tremulous hills above, -- Or the heart within me, awake once more To the dawning light of love? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BONNYBELL: THE GRAY SPHEX by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE WILD FLOWER'S SONG by WILLIAM BLAKE DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 1. EMBARKATION by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER PUTTING IN THE SEED by ROBERT FROST THE RUSH OF THE OREGON by ARTHUR GUITERMAN IDYLLS OF THE KING: THE HOLY GRAIL by ALFRED TENNYSON FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE by EDWIN ARNOLD LILIES: 20. 'SOME DAY I WILL TELL YOU' by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |