1 Prompted to seek my bliss above the skies, How often did I lift mine eyes Beyond the spheres! Dame Nature told me there was endless space Within my soul; I spied its very face: Sure it not for nought appears. What is there which a man may see Beyond the spheres? Felicity. 2 There in the mind of God, that sphere of love (In nature, height, extent, above All other spheres), A man may see himself, the world, the bride Of God His church, which as they there are eyed Strangely exalted each appears: His mind is higher than the space Above the spheres, Surmounts all place. 3 No empty space; it is all full of sight, All soul and life, an eye most bright, All light and love; Which doth at once all things possess and give, Heaven and earth, and all that therein live; It rests at quiet, and doth move; Eternal is, yet time includes; A scene above All interludes. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO DICK, ON HIS SIXTH BIRTHDAY by SARA TEASDALE AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 3. AFTER THE CLUB-DANCE by THOMAS HARDY THE SECRET OF THE SEA by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW WINTER MEMORIES by HENRY DAVID THOREAU DIRGE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |