Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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LINES FROM INEZ, A MS. POEM. |
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LINES FROM INEZ, A MS. POEM.
I gazed upon thy face—my joy! my pride!That face more dear than all the world beside,
And all the world contains of bright, to me
Unrivalled in its sweet supremacy!—
The soft suffusions and the expressions there,
Those blushing tints, bright as Morn's roseate air—
Those kindlings of intelligence, and more,
Those shades of feeling, made my thoughts run o'er
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And more unutterable tenderness!
Had Love's soft shade been banished from thy face,
There nought of human would have stamped its trace,
So much did thine all-beauteous countenance,
When thou wast wrapt in some far-soaring trance,
Speak of another word—a world of light,
Reflected in its living mirror bright.
Methinks each thought that thrills and wakens thee,
Mine own! must be an immortality!
And Thought by Thought thou thus shalt brightly rise,
Till all thy soul's exhaled into the skies!
I almost tremble as on thee I gaze—
At times when o'er thy lovely aspect blaze
The dazzling shadows of these thoughts supreme,
Lest thou should vanish from me like a dream!—
Lest like a vision thou shouldst melt away,
Or float on the receding light of day!
What time the bright sun leans into the west,
And leaves the world to shadows and to rest,
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From mortal and from earthly trammels freed,
Thou thus before me shouldst triumphant rise,
Exhaled into the bright Etherial Skies!—
Even Thought by Thought thy heavenly Soul exhaled
Into those heights that none like thine hath scaled!
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