ALL night long in love, in the darkness, passing through your lips, my love— Breathing the same breath, being folded in the same sleep, losing sense of Me and Thee, Into empyreal regions, beloved of the gods, united, we ascend together. Then in the morning on the high hill-side in the sun, looking down upon the spires of the larches and Scotch firs, Mortal, we tread again the earthy floor. O Earth, the floor of heaven— O Sun, shining aloft in the sky so pure— O children of the sun, ye flowers and streams, and little mortals walking the earth for a time— And we too gazing for a time, for a time, for a time, into each other's eyes. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE COURTSHIP OF THE YONGHY-BONGHY-BO by EDWARD LEAR MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 5 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE HERO OF VIMY; AN INCIDENT OF THE GREAT WAR by BRENT DOW ALLINSON AFTER THE PLAY by HAMILTON FISH ARMSTRONG TO A FRIEND by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE THE LOST BOWER by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |