I SAW a Mother's eye intensely bent Upon a Maiden trembling as she knelt; In and for whom the pious Mother felt Things that we judge of by a light too faint: Tell, if ye may, some star-crowned Muse, or Saint! Tell what rushed in, from what she was relieved -- Then, when her Child the hallowing touch received, And such vibration through the Mother went That tears burst forth amain. Did gleams appear? Opened a vision of that blissful place Where dwells a Sister-child? And was power given Part of her lost One's glory back to trace Even to this Rite? For thus 'She' knelt, and, ere The summer-leaf had faded, passed to Heaven. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SONG OF THE BOW, FR. THE WHITE COMPANY by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE ENDYMION by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW PROMETHEUS by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL ELEGIAC SONNET: 4. TO THE MOON by CHARLOTTE SMITH A REMEMBERED FACE by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG VERSES SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN IN A BURIAL-GROUND .. SOCIETY OF FRIENDS by BERNARD BARTON FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 21 by THOMAS CAMPION |