MAID of the placid smile and heavenly mien, With beaming eye, though tearful, yet serene; Teach me, like thee, in sorrow's lingering hour, To bless devotion's all-consoling power; Teach me, like thee, when storms around me rise, And spreading glooms obscure the azure skies, On one unclouded light to fix my view, For ever brilliant and for ever true; The star of faith! whose mild, celestial ray With steady lustre shall direct my way: Thy seraph-hand shall raise my drooping head. Angel of peace! thy wings around me spread; With hallowed spells my fainting spirit cheer, Hush the sad murmur, dry the starting tear. Thus when the halcyon broods upon the tides, The winds are lulled, the mountain-wave subsides; Soft rainbow hues, reflected, tinge the deep, And balmy zephyrs on its bosom sleep -- Maid of the placid smile! my troubled soul Would own thy gentle reign, thy mild control; Though the pale cypress twine thy sainted brow, Eternal palms for thee in heaven shall blow. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LINCOLN TRIUMPHANT by EDWIN MARKHAM UPON THE DEATH OF SIR ALBERT MORTON'S WIFE by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS THE INCENSE BURNER by ABUS SALT OF HIS CONVERSION by WILLIAM ALABASTER BLAKE'S APOLOGY FOR HIS CATALOGUE by WILLIAM BLAKE ON A VIOLA D'AMORE by MATHILDE BLIND FIRST NIGHT-FLIGHT by MARGARET BODEN NEW YEAR'S VERSES FOR THE CARRIER OF THE MIRROR, 1826 by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD |