(J. G. W. September 7, 1892) WAS it thy step on the mountain-side? Was it thy voice in the air? -- Strange beauty illumined the landscape wide; The world lay in heaven-light there. And a whisper, a breath, through my trouble went; -- Did a soul speak, passing by? -- "Ah, see how the heights and the levels are blent, How the peaks are dissolved in the sky! "One tender suffusion of splendor is this, -- Blue summits and meadows green! So peaceful, so soft the withdrawal is Of a life into Light unseen." -- Thy spirit was passing -- I knew it not -- Beyond the light of the sun! And the world thou hast left has a radiance caught From the glory that thou hast won. And my soul arises and follows thine Up the luminous heavenward slope; For thy beautiful footprints make earth divine With the glow of a deathless hope. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VOLPONE: TO CELIA by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS ODE TO SIMPLICITY by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) THE ANGELUS; HEARD AT THE MISSION DOLORES IN SAN FRANCISCO, 1868 by FRANCIS BRET HARTE IN HOSPITAL: 10. STAFF NURSE: NEW STYLE by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY A DREAM, AFTER READING DANTE'S EPISODE OF PAULO & FRANCESCA by JOHN KEATS I SHALL LIVE TO BE OLD by SARA TEASDALE |