WHEN first I looked into thy glorious eyes, And saw, with their unearthly beauty pained. Heaven deepening within heaven, like the skies Of autumn nights without a shadow stained, I stood as one whom some strange dream enthralls; For, far away in some lost life divine, Some land which every glorious dream recalls, A spirit looked on me with eyes like thine. Even now, though death has veiled their starry light, And closed their lids in his relentless night, -- As some strange dream, remembered in a dream, Again I see, in sleep, their tender beam; Unfading hopes their cloudless azure fill, Heaven deepening within heaven, serene and still. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EMMELINE GRANGERFORD'S 'ODE TO STEPHEN DOLWING BOTS, DEC'D' by SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS PANDOSTO, THE TRIUMPH OF TIME: IN PRAISE OF HIS BEST-BELOVED FAWNIA by ROBERT GREENE HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 7 by EZRA POUND A BIRTHDAY by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI |