Heart-affluence in discursive talk From household fountains never dry; The critic clearness of an eye That saw thro' all the Muses' walk; Seraphic intellect and force To seize and throw the doubts of man; Impassion'd logic, which outran The hearer in its fiery course; High nature amorous of the good, But touch'd with no ascetic gloom; And passion pure in snowy bloom Thro' all the years of April blood; A love of freedom rarely felt, Of freedom in her regal seat Of England; not the schoolboy heat, The blind hysterics of the Celt; And manhood fused with female grace In such a sort, the child would twine A trustful hand, unask'd, in thine, And find his comfort in thy face; All these have been, and thee mine eyes Have look'd on: if they look'd in vain, My shame is greater who remain, Nor let thy wisdom make me wise. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A WOMAN'S SHORTCOMINGS by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING TWO LIVES: CONCLUSION. INDIAN SUMMER by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD PARADISE LOST: BOOK 1 by JOHN MILTON THE NEWLY WEDDED by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED MARE LIBERUM by HENRY VAN DYKE MASKS by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |