HAVE I passed through Death's unconscious birth, In a dream the midnight bare? I look on another and fairer Earth: I breathe a wondrous air! A spirit of beauty walks the hills, A spirit of love the plain; The shadows are bright, and the sunshine fills The air with a diamond rain! Before my vision the glories swim, To the dance of a tune unheard: Is an angel singing where woods are dim, Or is it an amorous bird? Is it a spike of azure flowers, Deep in the meadows seen, Or is it the peacock's neck, that towers Out of the spangled green? Is a white dove glancing across the blue, Or an opal taking wing? For my soul is dazzled through and through, With the splendor of the Spring. Is it she that shines, as never before, The tremulous hills above, -- Or the heart within me, awake once more To the dawning light of love? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CONSCIENCE AND REMORSE by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR PARAPHRASE ON THOMAS A KEMPIS by ALEXANDER POPE EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 8. BE QUICK AND SURE by PHILIP AYRES THE FIRST FIRE by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD BRYANT'S BIRTHPLACE by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES |