Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNETS FROM SERIES RELATING TO EDGAR ALLEN POE: 1, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first I looked into thy glorious eyes Last Line: Heaven deepening within heaven, serene and still. Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) | ||||||||
WHEN first I looked into thy glorious eyes, And saw, with their unearthly beauty pained. Heaven deepening within heaven, like the skies Of autumn nights without a shadow stained, I stood as one whom some strange dream enthralls; For, far away in some lost life divine, Some land which every glorious dream recalls, A spirit looked on me with eyes like thine. Even now, though death has veiled their starry light, And closed their lids in his relentless night, -- As some strange dream, remembered in a dream, Again I see, in sleep, their tender beam; Unfading hopes their cloudless azure fill, Heaven deepening within heaven, serene and still. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HAUNTING POE'S BALTIMORE by ALLEN GINSBERG HIWAY POESY L.A. TO WICHITA by ALLEN GINSBERG THE POETS OF HELL by KARL SHAPIRO POE'S COTTAGE AT FORDHAM by JOHN HENRY BONER THE BRIDGE: 7. THE TUNNEL by HAROLD HART CRANE A NOVEMBER LANDSACPE by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN A SEPTEMBER EVENING ON THE BANKS OF THE MOSHASSUCK by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN |
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