Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ADORATION, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poet's Biography First Line: Come not too near! Yon glory circled star Last Line: Let me revere! Subject(s): Hearts; Love | ||||||||
COME not too near! yon glory circled Star Too closely scanned might prove but common earth: Safer to gleam divinely from afar Than risk the glamour of a heavenly birth: Come not too near! Keep not too far! the lustre of yon Sphere Is faint till twilight; 'tis so far away: Perchance 'twould glisten earlier, if near. Shine not at eve alone, but all my day! Keep not too far! Stay as thou art! Love's telescope shall clear Thine aureole enough to gauge the worth Of thy humanity: yet would I peer Not as one keen to measure fault or dearth. Stay as thou art! Let me revere! lest frightened Love depart: Better my heaven her pearly ports should bar Than aught be visioned by this wistful heart That seems her pure serenity to mar. Let me revere! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD |
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