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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BLIND MARY, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poet's Biography First Line: There flows from her spirit such love and delight Last Line: Is one of the guardians, an eden around. | |||
I. THERE flows from her spirit such love and delight, That the face of Blind Mary is radiant with light -- As the gleam from a homestead through darkness wil. show, Or the moon glimmer soft through the fast falling snow II. Yet there's a keen sorrow comes o'er her at times, As an Indian might feel in our northerly climes; And she talks of the sunset, like parting of friends, And the starlight, as love, that nor changes nor ends. III. Ah! grieve not, sweet maiden, for star or for sun, For the mountains that tower, or the rivers that run -- For beauty and grandeur, and glory, and light. Are seen by the spirit, and not by the sight. IV. In vain for the thoughtless are sunburst and shade, In vain for the heartless flowers blossom and fade; While the darkness that seems your sweet being to bound Is one of the guardians, an Eden around. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FONTENOY by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF EOGHAN RUADH (OWEN ROE) O'NEIL by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS NATIONALITY by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS THE BOATMAN OF KINSALE by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS THE FLOWER OF FINAE by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS THE SACK OF BALTIMORE by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS THE WELCOME by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS A BALLAD OF FREEDOM by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS A CHRISTMAS SCENE; OR, LOVE IN THE COUNTRY by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS A NATION ONCE AGAIN by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS |
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