ERE Love from barren Chaos drew the skies, Piercing its womb that hid the light of day, Beneath primaeval earth's and water's sway The shapeless Heavens lay whelmed, in dark disguise. Even so my sluggish soul, too dull to rise, Within this body's gross and heavy clay Without or form or feature shapeless lay Until Love's arrow pierced it from your eyes. Love brought me life and power and truth and light, Made pure my inmost heart through his control, And shaped my being to a perfect whole. He warms my veins, he lights my thought, his flight Snatches me upward, till in Heaven's height I find the ordered pathway of my soul. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JOHN WILKES BOOTH AT THE FARM (JANUARY 12, 1848) by EDGAR LEE MASTERS WHEN DEY 'LISTED COLORED SOLDIERS by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE MYSTERIOUS CAT by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY RICHARD CORY by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 21. YAKBUZU WA YABSUTU by EDWIN ARNOLD THE CLOISTER OF THE FALLING SNOW by SYLVIA HORTENSE BLISS PILLBOX by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 11 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |