Twin stars of light! whose blended rays Illuminate the darkest road Where fortune's roving exile strays, When doubt and care the wanderer load, And drive him far from joy's abode. Propitious Love and smiling Hope! Be you my guides, and guardian powers, If, doom'd with adverse fate to cope, I quit in Honour's rigid hours These dear, these bliss-devoted towers. Yet here, O still, most radiant! here (Attend this prayer of fond concern) To beauty's bosom life endear, Presaging as ye brightly burn The rapture of my blest return. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO A PACIFIST FRIEND by GEORGE SANTAYANA EPITAPH ON HIMSELF by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE WIDOW; SAPPHICS by ROBERT SOUTHEY MOONLIGHT by SERENA COBIA BAILEY AURORA LEIGH: BOOK 5 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE HOME-RETURNING by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON FOR THE DUE IMPROVEMENT OF A FUNERAL SOLEMNITY by JOHN BYROM |