THE shining splendour of your eyes I bless! It shone on the delirium that was mine. The smile that lingers on your lips I bless! For it has made me drunken as with wine. The poison hidden in your kiss I bless! Its venom drove my dreams and thoughts astray. The sickle that is your embrace I bless! It cut down all past things that in me lay. The conflagration of your love I bless! A pyre I kindled for it joyfully. The darkness that is in your soul I bless! It spread with mantling pinions over me. For everything, for everything I bless! For grief and ache and dread thro' days untold, Because you drew me on to Paradise, Because outside its gateway I am cold! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TOM'S GARLAND: UPON THE UNEMPLOYED by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS MESSIAH; A SACRED ECLOGUE IN IMITATION OF VIRGIL'S POLLIO by ALEXANDER POPE ELEGIAC SONNET: 44. WRITTEN IN THE CHURCH YARD AT MIDDLETON IN SUSSEX by CHARLOTTE SMITH THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION: BOOK 1 by MARK AKENSIDE TO THE AUTHOR OF TEUCHSA GRONDIE by LEVI BISHOP |