O rest divine! O golden certainty Of love! when love's half smile, illumining pain, Bade all bright things immutable remain. Dreaming I stand, the low brook drawling by, Her flowerlike mien, her mountain step to mark. Ah, I recall when her least look again Could mar the music in my happy mind And plunge me into doubt, her faintest sigh Stir all the fixed pillars of my heaven, Commingling them in mist and stormy dark! And all together, as I have seen the rain When the whole shower is swinging in the wind, And like a mighty pendulum urged and driven, Beat back and forth between the earth and sky! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A LITTLE BOY'S DREAM by KATHERINE MANSFIELD COLORS by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET THE PASSING OF THE EX-SLAVE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A FLORIDA SUNDAY by SIDNEY LANIER A NEW HYMN by KATHERINE MANSFIELD |