Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE VISION, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poet's Biography First Line: Aloft a white-robed angel I beheld Last Line: I saw the starry multitudes ablaze. Subject(s): Angels; Love; Vision | ||||||||
ALOFT a white-robed angel I beheld; His splendour the loud tempest's anger quelled And won to silence the far murmuring sea. "Why comest thou, angel, this dark night to me?" I asked him. He replied, "Thy soul to take." I trembled for in woman's guise he spake, And with my hands stretched orth to him, I said "What shall be left me when thou shalt be fled?" He answered not, but all the heaven grew dim, O'erwhelmed with shadow. Thereon I cried to him "Where wilt thou bear me? Show me in what place." Still was he silent. "O farer thro' blue space, Art Death or Life?" I cried. Thereon did roll All night's deep shadow o'er my ravished soul; The angel form grown dim said "Lo! I am Love." But his dark brow was fair as day's. Above, Thro' his wide wings, beyond his shadowy gaze, I saw the starry multitudes ablaze. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MERCY SEAT by NORMAN DUBIE TOO BRIGHT TO SEE by LINDA GREGG NORMAL LIGHT by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER LANDSCAPES (FOR CLEMENT R. WOOD) by LOUIS UNTERMEYER THE VISION TEST by MONA VAN DUYN FREED FROM ANOTHER CONTEXT by ELEANOR WILNER A COUP D'ETAT; AN INCIDENT IN THE NIGHT OF DECEMBER 4, 1851 by VICTOR MARIE HUGO |
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