Was never form and never face So sweet to SEYD as only grace Which did not slumber like a stone, But hovered gleaming and was gone. Beauty chased he everywhere, In flame, in storm, in clouds of air. He smote the lake to feed his eye With the beryl beam of the broken wave; He flung in pebbles well to hear The moment's music which they gave. Oft pealed for him a lofty tone From nodding pole and belting zone. He heard a voice none else could hear From centred and from errant sphere. The quaking earth did quake in rhyme, Seas ebbed and flowed in epic chime. In dens of passion, and pits of woe, He saw strong Eros struggling through, To sun the dark and solve the curse, And beam to the bounds of the universe. While thus to love he gave his days In loyal worship, scorning praise, How spread their lures for him in vain Thieving Ambition and paltering Gain! He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AGING TOGETHER by CLARENCE MAJOR CINQUAIN: NIGHT WINDS by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY THE SCRIBE by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE THE BALLAD OF A DAFT GIRL by DOROTHY ALDIS TO AN ASTRONOMER by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA WATCHING AND WISHING by CHARLOTTE BRONTE DIXIT, ET IN MENSAM by CHARLES WILLIAM SHIRLEY BROOKS |