HIS feet were shod with music and had wings Like Hermes: far upon the peaks of song His sandals sounded silverly along; The dull world blossomed into beauteous things Where'er he trod; and Heliconian springs Gushed from the rocks he touched; round him a throng Of fair invisibles, seraphic, strong, Struck Orphean murmurs out of golden strings; But he, spreading keen pinions for a white Immensity of radiance and of peace, Up-looming to the Empyrean infinite, Far through ethereal fields, and zenith seas, High, with strong wing-beats and with eagle ease, Soared in a solitude of glorious light! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CRYSTAL GAZER by SARA TEASDALE DIRGE (1) by RALPH WALDO EMERSON THE BLINDED BIRD by THOMAS HARDY ECHO SONG by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH WHITE GRASS by ADA BAZZACCHINI THE SILVER BIRD OF HERNDYKE MILL by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |