AH, might each instant be a kiss As Beauty ever counts them, for In her perfection dwells such bliss Continuance only makes it more! Without alarm, without regret, She leans from @3now@1 into @3not yet,@1 So t'ward deep water naiad slopes, Shoots out of depth, with push of toe, And, trailing comeliness, aglow Launches her smile to follow Hope's, Braves the vast cold unplumbed abyss, Shudders from heel to nape, then swims With lengthy placid stroke and is Completely tranced through mind and limbs; No fleck of doubt, no hint of fear Troubles an eye like a glad tear Filled with diminutive azure noon: And every foundered soul conceives, Watching the dazzling wake she leaves, How even life at poise were boon! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO TIME by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON TO MY CLASS: ON CERTAIN FRUITS AND FLOWERS SENT ... SICKNESS by SIDNEY LANIER MY LAST DUCHESS; FERRRA by ROBERT BROWNING THE SPIRIT OF SHAKESPEARE: 2 by GEORGE MEREDITH SIMMENTHAL by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1876 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI AFTER YEARS by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS A DAY: AN EPISTLE TO JOHN WILKES, OF AYLESBURY, ESQ. by JOHN ARMSTRONG |