WAS this His coming! I had hoped to see A scene of wondrous glory, as was told Of some great God who in a rain of gold Broke open bars and fell on Danae: Or a dread vision as when Semele Sickening for love and unappeased desire Prayed to see God's clear body, and the fire Caught her white limbs and slew her utterly: With such glad dreams I sought this holy place, And now with wondering eyes and heart I stand Before this supreme mystery of Love: A kneeling girl with passionless pale face, An angel with a lily in his hand, And over both with outstretched wings the Dove. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...QUI S'EXCUSE S'ACCUSE by MARIANNE MOORE SONNET: 19. ON HIS BLINDNESS by JOHN MILTON FIREFLY; A SONG by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS VETERAN SIRENS by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON OUR STATE by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER TO WAKEN AN OLD LADY by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS THE ETERNAL JUSTICE by ANNE REEVE ALDRICH AN ESSAY TOWARDS A CHARACTER OF HIS SACRED MAJESTY KING JAMES II by PHILIP AYRES |