Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ADORATION, by HUMBERT WOLFE


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First Line: Come not too near! Yon glory circled star
Last Line: Let me revere!
Subject(s): Hearts; Love


COME not too near! yon glory circled Star
Too closely scanned might prove but common earth:
Safer to gleam divinely from afar
Than risk the glamour of a heavenly birth:
Come not too near!
Keep not too far! the lustre of yon Sphere
Is faint till twilight; 'tis so far away:
Perchance 'twould glisten earlier, if near.
Shine not at eve alone, but all my day!
Keep not too far!

Stay as thou art! Love's telescope shall clear
Thine aureole enough to gauge the worth
Of thy humanity: yet would I peer
Not as one keen to measure fault or dearth.
Stay as thou art!

Let me revere! lest frightened Love depart:
Better my heaven her pearly ports should bar
Than aught be visioned by this wistful heart
That seems her pure serenity to mar.
Let me revere!





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