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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON READING PAUL AND VIRGINIA IN CHILDHOOD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: O gentle story of the indian isle!
Last Line: To reach with blight that holiest edenflower.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Children; Spring; Childhood
First Line: O gentle story of the indian isle!
Last Line: To reach with blight that holiest edenflower.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Children; Spring; Childhood
O GENTLE story of the Indian isle!
I loved thee in my lonely childhood well
On the sea-shore, when day's last, purple smile
Slept on the waters, and their hollow swell
And dying cadence lent a deeper spell
Unto thine ocean-pictures. 'Midst thy palms
And strange bright birds, my fancy joyed to dwell,
And watch the Southern Cross through midnight calms,
And track the spicy woods. Yet more I blessed
Thy vision of sweet love -- kind, trustful, true,
Lighting the citron groves, a heavenly guest,
With such pure smiles as Paradise once knew.
Even then my young heart wept o'er this world's power
To reach with blight that holiest Edenflower.
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