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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HOLINESS, by RALPH W. WESTCOTT
First Line: Now am I glad, after the accurate day
Last Line: Of her pure body -- her soul's paradise.
Subject(s): Yale University
First Line: Now am I glad, after the accurate day
Last Line: Of her pure body -- her soul's paradise.
Subject(s): Yale University
Now am I glad, after the accurate day
Has brightened into certainty some shades
Of doubt, that, as among those moon-washed glades
We wandered yesterday, I kept at bay
The Adam-impulse that scarce brooked delay;
Nor made complaint when, like an hundred blades
Of steel, desire stabbed my soul!
Day fades
Again to dark. Now memory, I pray!
Hark back the spell that calmed my broken sighs: --
The shadow-softened glory of her face
Purer than Artemis'. She breathed round me
Aromas that wrapped sense in ecstasy
So high, it was most holy -- from the grace
Of her pure body -- her soul's paradise.
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