O rest divine! O golden certainty Of love! when love's half smile, illumining pain, Bade all bright things immutable remain. Dreaming I stand, the low brook drawling by, Her flowerlike mien, her mountain step to mark. Ah, I recall when her least look again Could mar the music in my happy mind And plunge me into doubt, her faintest sigh Stir all the fixed pillars of my heaven, Commingling them in mist and stormy dark! And all together, as I have seen the rain When the whole shower is swinging in the wind, And like a mighty pendulum urged and driven, Beat back and forth between the earth and sky! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CHANNEL FIRING by THOMAS HARDY TO HIS DYING BROTHER, MASTER WILLIAM HERRICK by ROBERT HERRICK PARADISE LOST: BOOK 1 by JOHN MILTON THE BROWN GIANT by ALEXANDER ANDERSON VENDEMIAIRE by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE MEN OF GENIUS by MATTHEW ARNOLD |