Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HERVEY TO NINA - MISS BREMER, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poet's Biography First Line: Divided in our lives, and yet twin-hearted! Last Line: The golden memory of that dream of love! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Love | ||||||||
DIVIDED in our lives, and yet twin-hearted! Our sad first parents shared a happier fate; When, from Love's Eden, dearest, we departed, 'T was ours to sever at the outer gate. Ah! yet I know, whatever path thou 'rt tracing, Thy tearful eye is sometimes backward cast; Thou art not coldly from thy heart effacing The thrilling story of our blissful past, -- When life was like a sunset's glories blended With all the waking splendors of the morn, And when, dear love, if some light showers descended, It seemed 't was but that rainbows might be born. O warm! O beautiful! O glorious season! Like the first blushing-time of Cashmere's roses! My soul forgets cold truth, and worldly reason, And in thy lap of languid joy reposes. In reveries delicious I revisit Each spot where love's impassioned tale was told; Where moments passed of pleasure so exquisite, Time should have marked their flight with sands of gold. Again upon my throbbing breast thou 'rt leaning, O fondly, wildly loved one! O adored! Again come back thy words of tendrest meaning, That once such transport through my bosom poured. Again I feet the wish, intense and burning, To live within thy life, to drink thine air; That deep, mysterious, and mighty yearning Would draw me down from heaven, wert thou not there. A fount there was within each bosom flowing, That gushed not water, but love's purple wine; Sparkling with rapture, and with passion glowing, It maketh mortals for a space divine. 'T was joy to know thee of that fountain drinking, Within my heart, upspringing but for thee, And I of thine as deeply, all unthinking There might be madness in that draught for me! When all of bliss the earth-born may inherit, Divinely lavish, was around us thrown, And when the mystic union of the spirit Had twined our glowing beings into one, -- Then were we parted; Hope's ecstatic vision Grew dim with tears, and Joy's young pinion furled; Pillowed on flowers, we had a dream Elysian, And we have wakened in a stormy world! Gone, gone for ever! we beheld it vanish, As a warm cloud melts in the blue above; Yet from our souls no power create can banish The golden memory of that dream of love! | 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 ARIADNE by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT |
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