What lies across my lonely bed Like tropic moonlight soft and pale? What deeper gold is that outspread Across my pillow like a veil? What sudden fragrances are these That voyage across the gloom to me, With faint delirious ecstasies From fairy gardens over sea? What rustles in the curtained dusk With the remembrance of a sigh, As if a breath of wandering air Should stir the poppies going by? Lover of beauty, can it be That from some far off foreign clime The sumptuous night has brought to thee The Rose of Beauty of all time? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PENT by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MRS. SIBLEY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE TEACHER by LESLIE PINCKNEY HILL BALLAD OF HECTOR IN HADES by EDWIN MUIR HYMN OF PAN by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY WAR DEAD by PATRICK JOHN MCALISTER ANDERSON MY DEAREST WIFE by WILLIAM BARNES |