A Similitude

Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)



FAIR as the night—when all the astral fires   
 Of heaven are burning in the clear expanse,   
 My love is; and her eyes like star-depths glance   
Lustrous with glowing thoughts and pure desires,   
And that mysterious pathos which inspires           
 All moods divine in mortal passion’s trance—   
 All that its earthly music doth enhance   
As with the rapture of seraphic lyres!   
I gaze upon her till the atmosphere   
 Sweetens intensely, and to my charmed sight           
All fair associated forms appear   
 Swimming in joy, as swim yon orbs in light—   
And all sweet sounds, though common to mine ear,   
 Chime up like silver-wingèd dreams in flight.

 

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme ABBACBBADEDEFE
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 670
Words 105
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14

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