Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE CHAUNT, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poet's Biography First Line: I think I've looked on eyes that shone Last Line: And fairer than the vision made it. Subject(s): Love | ||||||||
I. I THINK I've looked on eyes that shone With equal splendour, And some, but they are dimmed and gone, As wildly tender. I never looked on eyes that shed Such home-light mingled with such beauty,-- That 'mid all lights and shadows said, "I love and trust and will be true to ye." II. I've seen some lips almost as red, A form as stately; And some such beauty turned my head Not very lately. But not till now I've seen a girl With form so proud, lips so delicious, With hair like night, and teeth of pearl, -- Who was not haughty and capricious. III. Oh, fairer than the dawn of day On Erne's islands! Oh, purer than the thorn spray In Bantry's highlands! In sleep such visions crossed my view, And when I woke the phantom faded; But now I find the fancy true, And fairer than the vision made it. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD CLARE'S DRAGOONS by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS FONTENOY by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF EOGHAN RUADH (OWEN ROE) O'NEIL by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS |
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