A Lover's Diary: Songs in Sequence (Classic Reprint)

AS one would stand who saw a sudden light Flood down the 'world, and so encompass him, And in that world illumined Seraphim Brooded above and gladdened to his sight; 80 stand I in the flame of one great thought, That broadens to my soul from where she waits, Who, yesterday, drew wide the inner gates Of all my being to the hopes I sought. Her words come to me like a summer-song, Blown from the throat of some sweet nightingale; 1 stand within her ...