PUT off the vestal veil, nor, oh! Let weeping angels view it; Your cheeks belie its virgin snow, And blush repenting through it. Put off the fatal zone you wear; The lucid pearls around it Are tears, that fell from Virtue there, The hour that Love unbound it. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FINDING OF THE LYRE by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL THE OWL by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 42. AUGMENTED BY FAVOURABLE BLASTS by PHILIP AYRES ON FILE by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS THEIR VERY MEMORY by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE CHAMPION (SUGGESTED BY A STORY OF JACK LONDON) by BERTON BRALEY |