O THOUGHT! O Memory! gems for ever heaping High in the illumined chambers of the mind -- And thou, divine Imagination! keeping Thy lamp's lone star 'mid shadowy hosts enshrined; How in one moment rent and disentwined, At Fever's fiery touch, apart they fall, Your glorious combinations! broken all, As the sand-pillars by the desert's wind Scattered to whirling dust! Oh, soon uncrowned! Well may your parting swift, your strange return, Subdue the soul to lowliness profound, Guiding its chastened vision to discern How by meek Faith heaven's portals must be passed. Ere it can hold your gifts inalienably fast. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A DISCRETE LOVE POEM by JAMES GALVIN SHADOW-CASTING by JAMES GALVIN IMMORTALITY [OR, VERSE] by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR THE SNOW MAN by WALLACE STEVENS SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 2 by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY |