Guises your moods once wore are hung within The closet of my mind. I take access This moment to regard them and confess How spare for want of you they hang, and thin. Pity seems all their argument may win, That fine, frail rustling of each mood's meet dress. Yet starts a subtle incense from the press, Crushed perfumes of the flowers your thoughts have been. Sweeter than e'er you spoke them do they come Again with finer relish to my mind Starved on your absence. False surmise is numb, For now in these reliques of you I find The smile you meant when rebel lips were dumb, The kind words agitation made unkind. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LITTLE GIRL FOUND, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE THE BLACK RIDERS: 1 by STEPHEN CRANE SNEEZING by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT A FOREIGN RULER by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR AFTER DEATH by FRANCES ISABEL PARNELL THE TWO APRIL MORNINGS by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 4. TO THE HON. CHARLES TOWNSHEND, IN THE COUNTRY by MARK AKENSIDE |