Collected Poems: With Autobiographical and Critical Fragments By Frederic W. H. Myers: Edited by his Wife Eveleen Myers |
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O sudden heaven! superb surprise!
O day to dream again!
O Spanish eyebrows, Spanish eyes,
Voice and allures of Spain!
O day to dream again!
O Spanish eyebrows, Spanish eyes,
Voice and allures of Spain!
No answering glance her glances seek,
Her smile no suitor knows;
That lucid pallor of her cheek
Is lovelier than the rose;—
Her smile no suitor knows;
That lucid pallor of her cheek
Is lovelier than the rose;—
But when she wakens, when she stirs,
And life and love begin,
How blaze those amorous eyes of hers,
And what a god within!
And life and love begin,
How blaze those amorous eyes of hers,
And what a god within!
I watched her heart's arising strife,
Half eager, half afraid;
I paused; I would not wake to life
The tinted marble maid.
Half eager, half afraid;
I paused; I would not wake to life
The tinted marble maid.
But starlike through my dreams shall go,
Pale, with a fiery train,
The Spanish glory, Spanish glow,
The passion which is Spain.
Pale, with a fiery train,
The Spanish glory, Spanish glow,
The passion which is Spain.
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