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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LIGHT, by XAVIER DE MAGALLON Poet's Biography
First Line: Mistress of my days, light, o light
Last Line: Is it thus you shine on the elysian fields?
Subject(s): Light; Love; Passion
First Line: Mistress of my days, light, o light
Last Line: Is it thus you shine on the elysian fields?
Subject(s): Light; Love; Passion
Mistress of my days, light, O light,
I loved you once with the heat of armed fight,
My lips breathed you in like a rosebush aflame;
I loved you when your ardor overcame
The singing summers of the earth. ...
Now, O light, I cherish the birth
Of mystery when in the trembling hour
Of dusk I see your soul revive and flower.
On the empurpled prairie, under the thoughtful boughs,
Your loving glance extends and soft endows
My pine grove, wondering and still, to wear it,
With a glow that plays on the bark but lights the spirit.
Your fading brilliance wanes to tenderness,
The shadowed world melts in your caress ...
Light whose withdrawal such gentle ardor yields,
Is it thus you shine on the Elysian Fields?
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