THOU central Eye of God, whose lidless ball Is vision all around, dispensing heat, And light and life, and regulating all With its pervading glance -- how calm and sweet Is thine unclouded setting! Thou dost greet, With parting smiles, the earth; night's shadows fall, But long where thou hast sunk shall splendours meet, And, lingering there, thy glories past recall. Oh! may my heart, like thee, unspotted, clear, Be as a sun to all within its sphere; And when beneath the earth I seek my doom, May I with smiling calmness disappear, And friendship's twilight, hovering o'er my tomb, Still bid my memory survive and bloom. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PLAYING SOMEONE ELSE'S PIANO by KAREN SWENSON DON JUAN: DEDICATION [OR, INVOCATION] by GEORGE GORDON BYRON LINES TO A MOVEMENT IN MOZART'S E-FLAT SYMPHONY by THOMAS HARDY THE LOVER AND THE BIRDS by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM THE CLOUDED SOUL by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA |