|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE'S TRANSFIGURATION, by ANONYMOUS First Line: O strange sweet loveliness! O tender grace! Last Line: How lovely seemed thy love-lit face to me Subject(s): Love | |||
O STRANGE sweet loveliness! O tender grace, That in the light of passion's dayspring threw Soft splendor on a fair familiar face, Changing it, yet unchanged and old, yet new! Perfect the portrait in my heart, and true, Which traced the smile about the flower-like mouth, And those gray eyes with just a doubt of blue, Yet darkened with the passion of the South. And the white arch of thoughtful forehead crowned With meeting waves of hair; -- but still I found Some undreamt light of tenderness that fell From the new dawn, and made more fair to see What was so fair, that now no song can tell How lovely seemed thy love-lit face to me. | 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 TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
| |