Bells and Other Poems

<h2><i><SPAN name="TO_ONE_IN_PARADISE"></SPAN>TO ONE IN PARADISE</i></h2> <p class="poem"> Thou wast all that to me, love,<br/> <span class="ind1">For which my soul did pine&mdash;</span><br/> A green isle in the sea, love,<br/> <span class="ind1">A fountain and a shrine,</span><br/> All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,<br/> <span class="ind1">And all the flowers were mine.</span><br/> <br/> Ah, dream to bright to last!<br/> <span class="ind1">Ah, starry Hope! that didst arise</span><br/> But to be overcast!<br/> <span class="ind1">A voice from out the Future cries,</span><br/> "On! on!"&mdash;but o'er the Past<br/> <span class="ind1">(Dim gulf!) my spirit hovering lies</span><br/> Mute, motionless, aghast!<br/> <br/> For, alas! alas! with me<br/> <span class="ind1">The light of Life is o'er!</span><br/> "No more&mdash;no more&mdash;no more&mdash;"<br/> (Such language holds the solemn sea<br/> <span class="ind1">To the sands upon the shore)</span><br/> Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree<br/> <span class="ind1">Or the stricken eagle soar!</span><br/> <br/> And all my days are trances,<br/> <span class="ind1">And all my nightly dreams</span><br/> Are where thy grey eye glances,<br/> <span class="ind1">And where thy footstep gleams&mdash;</span><br/> In what ethereal dances,<br/> <span class="ind1">By what eternal streams.</span><br/></p> <hr class="r15" /> <div class="plate"> <SPAN name="pl07"></SPAN><SPAN href="images/large/pl07.jpg"><ANTIMG src="images/pl07.jpg" alt="" /></SPAN></div> <p class="caption">To One in Paradise</p> <hr class="r65" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />