OH power of love! so fearful and so fair -- Life of our life on earth, yet kin to care -- Oh! thou day-dreaming spirit who dost look Upon the future as the charmed book Of Fate were open'd to thine eyes alone -- Thou who dost cull, from moments stolen and gone Into eternity, memorial things, To deck the days to come -- thy revelings Were glorious and beyond all others. Thou Didst banquet upon beauty once; and now The ambrosial feast is ended! Let it be Enough to say "@3It was@1." Oh! upon me, From thy o'ershadowing wings ethereal, Shake odorous airs, so may my senses all Be spell-bound to thy service, beautiful power, And on the breath of every coming hour Send me faint tidings of the things that were. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MARJORIE'S WOOING by EMMA LAZARUS BONNYBELL: THE BUTTERFLY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS ON THE MEMORABLE VICTORY OF PAUL JONES by PHILIP FRENEAU A THUNDERSTORM IN TOWN by THOMAS HARDY TORTOISE SHELL by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE IF THE WORLD WERE RIGHT by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON |