His heart to me, was a place of palaces and pinnacles and shining towers; I saw it then as we see things in dreams,-I do not remember how long I slept; I remember the tress, and the high, white walls, and how the sun was always on the towers; The walls are standing to-day, and the gates; I have been through the gates, I have groped, I have crept Back, back. There is dust in the streets, and blood; they are empty; darkness is over them; His heart is a place with the lights gone out, forsaken by great winds and the heavenly rain, unclean and unswept, Like the heart of the holy city, old blind, beautiful Jerusalem; Over which Christ wept. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO LEIGH HUNT, ESQ. by JOHN KEATS THE TUFT OF KELP by HERMAN MELVILLE HOPEFULLY WAITING by ANSON DAVIES FITZ RANDOLPH THE KINGDOM OF GOD by FRANCIS THOMPSON A RECEIPT TO CURE THE VAPOURS by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU RETIREMENT: AN ODE by JAMES BEATTIE |