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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ELODIA, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poet's Biography First Line: O sudden heaven! Superb surprise! Last Line: The passion which is spain. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Spain | |||
O SUDDEN heaven! superb surprise! O day to dream again! O Spanish eyebrows, Spanish eyes, Voice and allures of Spain! No answering glance her glances seek, Her smile no suitor knows; That lucid pallor of her cheek Is lovelier than the rose;— But when she wakens, when she stirs, And life and love begin, How blaze those amorous eyes of hers, And what a god within! I watched her heart's arising strife, Half eager, half afraid; I paused; I would not wake to life The tinted marble maid. But starlike through my dreams shall go, Pale, with a fiery train, The Spanish glory, Spanish glow, The passion which is Spain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FOR AL-TAYIB SALIH by KHALED MATTAWA MESSAGES AS TRANSLATION by MICHAEL S. HARPER THE VALLEY OF THE FALLEN by CAROLYN KIZER ON GREDOS by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO SPANISH SONNETS: 1 by JOHN UPDIKE SPANISH SONNETS: 5 by JOHN UPDIKE SPAIN, TAKE THIS CUP FROM ME by CESAR VALLEJO ON A GRAVE AT GRINDELWALD by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS |
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