In that fair capital where Pleasure, crowned Amidst her myriad courtiers, riots and rules, I too have been a suitor. Radiant eyes Were my life's warmth and sunshine, outspread arms My gilded deep horizons. I rejoiced In yielding to all amorous influence And multiple impulsion of the flesh, To feel within my being surge and sway The force that all the stars acknowledge too. Amid the nebulous humanity Where I an atom crawled and cleaved and sundered, I saw a million motions, but one law; And from the city's splendor to my eyes The vapors passed and there was nought but Love, A ferment turbulent, intensely fair, Where Beauty beckoned and where Strength pursued. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SEA-MEW by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING ROBIN REDBREAST by GEORGE WASHINGTON DOANE THE KISS by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR LAMENT OF THE FRONTIER GUARD by LI PO AUF WIEDERSEHEN! SUMMER by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL THYESTES, ACT 2: CHORUS by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA THE SPIRIT OF SHAKESPEARE: 1 by GEORGE MEREDITH |