IN vista seen, like truth down glooms of thought; Or pure long dreamt-of love, hard won and late By wanderers through dark ways of wrong and hate; Or, down the travelled years, keen memories, brought Brightly to view; or shining palaces wrought Of hope amid impending cliffs of fate: So gleam thy peaks, -- virgin, inviolate; Pastures where light feeds only; ever fraught With shadowy undulations; like a bride Whose soul Love's pinions, passing undescried, Ripple, and lo, the snowy depths revealed! And as fair spirits, by sorrow purified, Shine forth, so 'thwart Heaven's blue, where smiles abide, Beacons thy eternal snow's refulgent shield. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPRING NOTES FROM ROBIN HILL by HAYDEN CARRUTH DRUMS AND BRASS by DONALD (GRADY) DAVIDSON BEFORE DAWN; SONNET by AMY LOWELL TWO POEMS FROM THE WAR: 2 by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: WILLIAM AND EMILY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS A LETTER TO A POLICEMAN IN KANSAS CITY by KENNETH PATCHEN |