I LOVE to gaze along the horizon's verge -- To strain my sight where steeped in golden-gray The sun-illumined vapors gently surge, To melt in measureless distances away. I gaze and gaze, till tears bedim my eyes, And tongueless fancies haunt me, vague and fond; Ethereal boundary! blending earth and skies, Ah! dost thou veil some marvellous realm beyond? Deep spirit of mine! thou, too, art strangely bound By far horizons, vaporous, dim, and vast; Beyond the range of whose enchanted round, Not even the genii of weird dreams have passed! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EVENING by GEORGE WASHINGTON DOANE THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD: SONG by OLIVER GOLDSMITH THE SNOW MAN by WALLACE STEVENS THE SONG OF THE OLD MOTHER by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS BROADCAST by KATHARINE LEE BATES |