Sonnets written chiefly during a tour through Holland, Germany, Italy, Turkey, and Hungary. By Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley |
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MANUEL TO INEZ.
Love dawns along thy cloudless forehead fair!And while he doth in shroudless splendour rise,
Lights a whole Heaven of Suns in thy sweet eyes!—
That gleam beneath gold shadowings of thy hair—
As though the fountains of all Light were there!
Never such radiance streamed from yonder skies
When morning in her loveliest—fairest guise—
Turned to one ambered flood the enchanted air—
Thy presence is the Paradise of Thought!—
My dreams grow beautiful when thou art nigh—
As though thy blessed beauty these were taught,
And all my consciousness made ecstacy—
What treasures powerful Love to both hath brought!
What rich endowments that no wealth could buy!
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