WE all to conquering beauty bow, It's pleasing powers admire; But I ne'er saw that face till now, That like yours could inspire; Now I may say I've met with one Amazes all mankind; And like men gazing on the sun, With too much light am blind. Soft as the tender moving sighs When longing lovers meet; Like the divining prophets wise, And like blown roses sweet; Majestic, gay, reserved, yet free, Each happy night a bride; A mien like awful majesty, And yet no spark of pride. The patriarch to gain a wife, Chaste, beautiful, and young, Served fourteen years a painful life, And never thought it long: If beauty would award such care, And life so long could stay, Not fourteen, but four hundred year Would seem but as one day. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...STUDY FOR A GEOGRAPHICAL TRAIL; 5. MARYLAND by CLARENCE MAJOR A CORONAL by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS THE FLOWER OF BEAUTY by GEORGE DARLEY MOTLEY: MUSIC by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE DUNS SCOTUS'S OXFORD by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS TACT by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON ON BUTLER'S MONUMENT [IN WESTMINSTER] by SAMUEL WESLEY THE SODA-WATER SLOT-MACHINE by BELLA AKHMADULINA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA NIGHT (STRAITS OF CARQUINEZ) by WILLIAM ROSE BENET |