YOUR gracious words steal o'er like the breeze That blows from far-off southland isles benign, -- All steeped in perfume, sweet as fairy wine, Yet touched with salt keen breathings of the seas! What smiling thoughts of tender ministries Passionless service, and strong faith divine, Rest with this pictured sister's face of thine, And sister's love: -- (blent fire and balms of ease!) O love! a two-faced shield of light thou art, Whose golden-sided glamour long hath shone, In wedded bliss and affluence on my life; A sister's love -- the fair shield's silvery zone, Turns on me now! -- thy deathless fervor, wife, Blends with the sweetness of this new found heart! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WHEN MY SHIP COMES IN by ROBERT JONES BURDETTE INTERIM by CLARISSA SCOTT DELANY TO A CYCLAMEN by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR OF TREASON by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS SHE IS FAR FROM THE LAND by THOMAS MOORE ON A GIFT OF FLOWERS by GUILLAUME VICTOR EMILE AUGIER HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 19 by WILLIAM BOSWORTH |