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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RESERVE, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poet's Biography First Line: As when there peal along the astonished air Last Line: My too vainglorious spirit droops her wings. | |||
As when there peal along the astonished air Joy-bells of some exuberant town at play, Laughing and shouting in its holiday; And blind to apprehension, deaf to care, One standing in the noisy market-square, Pausing an instant, pondering -- if he may, -- Will hear above the riot loud and gay The vast cathedral-organ boom for prayer; So when I hold your beauty in my arms, Above the tumult of the pulse there rings A music welling from diviner things; Your soul reveals to me her nobler charms, And in the light that dazzles and disarms, My too vainglorious spirit droops her wings. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IMPRESSION by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE LYING IN THE GRASS by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE ON A LUTE FOUND IN A SARCOPHAGUS by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE REVELATION by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE THE SUPPLIANT by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE THE VANISHING BOAT by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE WITH A COPY OF HERRICK by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE 1870-71 by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE A BALLAD OF THE UPPER THAMES by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE A DREAM OF NOVEMBER; TO ARTHUR SYMONS by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE |
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