A WHITE face, drooping, on a bending neck: A tube-rose that with heavy petal curves Her stem: a foam-bell on a wave that swerves Back from the undulating vessel's deck. From out the whitest cloud of summer steals The wildest lightning: from this face of thine Thy soul, a fire-of-heaven, warm and fine, In marvellous flashes its fair self reveals. As when one gazes from the summer sea On some far gossamer cloud, with straining eye, Fearing to see it vanish in the sky, So, floating, wandering Cloud-Soul, I watch thee. MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, 1866. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DADDY STRAIN by KAREN SWENSON A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 12. A RENUNCIATION by THOMAS CAMPION ON LIBERTY AND SLAVERY by GEORGE MOSES HORTON A ROUGH RHYME ON A ROUGH MATTER; THE ENGLISH GAME LAWS by CHARLES KINGSLEY TO THE BOY by ELIZABETH CLEMENTINE DODGE KINNEY THE ONE LOST by ISAAC ROSENBERG IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: EPILOGUE by ALFRED TENNYSON THAT GENERAL UTILITY RAG, BY OUR OWN IRVING BERLIN by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS |