IN vision I roamed the flashing Firmament, So fierce in blazon that the Night waxed wan, As though with an awed sense of such ostent; And as I thought my spirit ranged on and on In footless traverse through ghast heights of sky, To the last chambers of the monstrous Dome, Where stars the brightest here to darkness die: Then, any spot on our own Earth seemed Home! And the sick grief that you were far away Grew pleasant thankfulness that you were near, Who might have been, set on some outstep sphere, Less than a Want to me, as day by day I lived unware, uncaring all that lay Locked in that Universe taciturn and drear. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNET: 19. ON HIS BLINDNESS by JOHN MILTON THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 79. THE MONOCHORD by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1) by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD THE BROKEN WATER WHEEL by GHALIB IBN RIBAH AL-HAJJAM SNOW OR SNOWDROPS? by MATHILDE BLIND A PERFECT SONNET by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT SONG, FR. A VISION OF GIORGIONE: GEMMA'S SONG ON THE WAY by GORDON BOTTOMLEY |