[Poems by Wilde in] Richard Henry Wilde His Life and Selected Poems |
LINES FOR THE MUSIC OF WEBER'S LAST WALTZ |
[Poems by Wilde in] Richard Henry Wilde | ||
LINES FOR THE MUSIC OF WEBER'S LAST WALTZ
See! the Sun is sinking
Day is closing fast
Twilight's pensive-thinking
Hours will soon be past:
Love's first Pilgrim sighing
Starts to hear the bell
Which to day-light dying
Tolls a last farewell:
Vesper's hymn is stealing
O'er the charmed air
Every form is kneeling
Every sound is prayer.
Day is closing fast
Twilight's pensive-thinking
Hours will soon be past:
Love's first Pilgrim sighing
Starts to hear the bell
Which to day-light dying
Tolls a last farewell:
Vesper's hymn is stealing
O'er the charmed air
Every form is kneeling
Every sound is prayer.
Thus 'mid all that's dearest
Would I sink to rest
Like that bright Star nearest
To the drooping West:
Let not Love bewail me,
'Twould but wound my ear
When my senses fail me
Be thou only near;
While my eyes are glazing
Take thy hand in mine
And be sure while gazing
Life's last thought is thine!
Would I sink to rest
Like that bright Star nearest
To the drooping West:
Let not Love bewail me,
'Twould but wound my ear
When my senses fail me
Be thou only near;
While my eyes are glazing
Take thy hand in mine
And be sure while gazing
Life's last thought is thine!
[Poems by Wilde in] Richard Henry Wilde | ||