Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHO IS THE MAID?, by THOMAS MOORE Poet's Biography First Line: Who is the maid my spirit seeks Last Line: In holy lustre wastes away! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Religion; Theology | ||||||||
I. WHO is the maid my spirit seeks, Through cold reproof and slander's blight, Has she Love's roses on her cheeks? Is hers an eye of this world's light? No, wan and sunk with midnight prayer Are the pale looks of her I love; Or if, at times, a light be there, Its beam is kindled from above. II. I chose not her, my soul's elect, From those who seek their Maker's shrine In gems and garlands proudly deck'd, As if themselves were things divine! No -- Heaven but faintly warms the breast, That beats beneath a broider'd veil; And she, who comes in glittering vest To mourn her frailty, still is frail. III. Not so the faded form I prize And love, because its bloom is gone; The glory in those sainted eyes Is all the grace her brow puts on. And ne'er was Beauty's dawn so bright, So touching as that form's decay, Which, like the altar's trembling light, In holy lustre wastes away! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY A CANADIAN BOAT SONG; WRITTEN ON THE RIVER ST. LAWRENCE by THOMAS MOORE |
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