JUST like Hope is yonder bow, That from the center bends so low, Where bright prismatic colours shew How gems of heavenly radiance glow, Just like Hope! Yet if, to the illusion new, The pilgrim should the arch pursue, Farther and farther from his view, It flies; then melts in chilling dew, Just like Hope! Ye fade, ethereal hues! for ever, While, cold Reason, thy endeavour Sooths not that sad heart, which never Glows with Hope. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNET OF HIS LADY IN HEAVEN by JACOPO DA LENTINO WHAT THE SONNET IS by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON MAUD MULLER by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER SOLITUDE by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX CHARLES EDWARD AT VERSAILLES ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF CULLODEN by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN THE DISCIPLE by DWIGHT JAQUES BRADLEY |