Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NATURE'S TEMPLE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poet's Biography First Line: The sun moved down the western sky Last Line: For the immortal name of god. Subject(s): God; Life; Love; Nature; Temples; Mosques | ||||||||
THE sun moved down the western sky, And rested on the beaming shores Of night's infinity, the space In which Orion's rising light Is waiting for his silver throne; Then sailed into the darkling sea Of night, and left the splendid glow Of twilight in his radiant wake. The distant mountains, bathed in light And hiding the horizon's bar, Or closing in the blue empyrean, Stand high in minatory grandeur, The watchmen at the portals wide Of day and night, the sentry bold Whose vigilance sublimely guards The entrance to infinity. The moon rose slowly o'er the plain And lighted woods and placid lake In silver sheen. No evening winds Disturbed the lambent air or moved The silent leaves in revelry, Or chilled the ecstasy of man, Who worships there, in ardent joy, The sombre glory of the stars. In dell or woodland loneliness The moonbeams' silver silence guards The cadence of AEolian music, That moves upon the balmy air And lulls the soul into the peace Of God, or thrills the passion deep Of reverie and song, and opes The gateway of eternal life. The lights and shadows in the vale Make fairyland for elf and sprite, Or wake in human life the springs Of true romance and poetry. This challenges the mind and heart To love and worship at the fane, Which nature builds and sanctifies For the immortal name of God. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BAYADERE by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS AT DENDERA by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR RAMESES WORSHIPS RAMESES AT ABU SIMBEL by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR GLIMPSES OF ITALY: 5. LIKE PAESTUM'S TEMPLE by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON MAYAN TEMPLE by ADA CLARKE CARMICHIEL THE EARTHLY HOUSE by PHOEBE CARY THE DESERTED SHRINE by GLADYS CROMWELL THE ARK OF THE COVENANT by NINA DAVIS THE MENORAH by MIRIAM DEL BANCO |
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