I FROM calm beyond our inmost thought Came the girl-spirit, childly-wise; From spaces of the blue she brought This earnest candour of her eyes; From heavenly fields her soul uprose, By fateful impulse urged to roam,— Looked on the wheeling worlds, and chose Our love her magnet, Earth her home. II Awhile, awhile these years shall flow, In these soft limbs her soul be pent, Till Earth the lore of love and woe Hath taught, and left her innocent: Then fairer yet, then yet more dear We hold our child in surer stay;— What else was Love that lit us @3here@1 But glimmering dawn of deathless day? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VARIATIONS ON A THEME: ROMANCE by EDITH SITWELL THE LIGHT'OOD FIRE by JOHN HENRY BONER ODE TO THE CUCKOO by MICHAEL BRUCE AN ANATOMY OF THE WORLD: THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY by JOHN DONNE A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 31 by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN SEASONS (1) by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE CYNOTAPH by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: THE FIRST CANTO, OR NEW MOON by WILLIAM BASSE HUNTING: EPILOGUE. TO HAVE A FAITHFUL FRIEND by JULIANA BERNERS |