Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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THE HEART'S POWER. |
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THE HEART'S POWER.
With our staunchless heart-wounds oft, oft we goWhere the blue and the laughing waters flow—
Where the fresh glad woods send many a sound
From their leafy and voiceful shrines profound—
And the hills look up to the Heavens above,
As if with a yearning of feeling love!
And the silvery laugh of that stream is vain,
And the voice of these glad woods but seems to complain,
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Not leading to Heaven, though they point from the Earth!
Oh! Nature! thy witchery and beauty are vain,
For a weight and a wound—a chill and a chain,
Unfit us for dwelling in peace where thou art,
When Sorrows have breathed the young bloom from the Heart!
And it mattereth not that thy soft skyey scene,
Uncrossed by one speck-like cloud is serene,
That thy Plains are covered with Flowers, whose bloom
Would lend a brightness and grace to the Tomb,
In the face of the Sun, in the presence of Day,
Thy Heart of Despair can in anguish say—
“Let there be Darkness” to listening Light,
And Nature at once is a sunless Night!
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