Pathway of light! o'er thy empurpled zone, With lavish charms perennial summer strays; Soft 'midst thy spicy groves the zephyr plays, While far around the rich perfumes are thrown; The amadavid-bird for thee alone, Spreads his gay plumes that catch thy vivid rays; For thee the gems with liquid luster blaze, And nature's various wealth is all thy own. But ah! not thine is twilight's doubtful gloom, Those mild gradations, mingling day with night; Here, instant darkness shrouds thy genial bloom, Nor leaves my pensive soul that lingering light, When musing memory would each trace resume Of fading pleasures in successive flight. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOREINE: A HORSE by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE CASABIANCA by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 2: 3. ARBOR VITAE by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 69. AUTUMN IDLENESS by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI THE COTTAGER TO HER INFANT by DOROTHY WORDSWORTH THE STWONEN STEPS by WILLIAM BARNES |