 | Poems descriptive, dramatic, legendary and contemplative |  |
[I. Voices are on the winds!—I hear them now]
Voices are on the winds!—I hear them nowFoating around me, musical and sweet
As are the waves of ocean when they meet,
Combing and flashing round some sunny prow;—
71
Back shrinking from the lately sought embrace;
Even as the new-won virgin, bashfully,
Love in her heart, but fear upon her face!
How exquisite, and yet how sad withal,
These murmurs, that fond meeting, and faint fall!
They swell upon my spirit's ear by night,
And morning brings them on her purple wings,—
Oh, Fancy!—as if feeding at thy springs,
They took from thee all voices of delight.
| Poems descriptive, dramatic, legendary and contemplative | |