A Song Of Eternity In Time Poem by Sidney Lanier
A Song Of Eternity In Time
Once, at night, in the manor wood
My Love and I long silent stood,
Amazed that any heavens could
Decree to part us, bitterly repining.
My Love, in aimless love and grief,
Reached forth and drew aside a leaf
That just above us played the thief
And stole our starlight that for us was shining.
A star that had remarked her pain
Shone straightway down that leafy lane,
And wrought his image, mirror-plain,
Within a tear that on her lash hung gleaming.
"Thus Time," I cried, "is but a tear
Some one hath wept 'twixt hope and fear,
Yet in his little lucent sphere
Our star of stars, Eternity, is beaming."
It is so sad and beautiful at the sametime. Would be a good deep emotional poem for those who like poems with emotions.
A Song Of Eternity In Time is so beautiful with its symbolism lovely
beautiful poem...so nicely written and rhymed..
beauty of metaphoric imagery thru the bubble of transient time of life like a tear.....stars of eternity mocking yet beaming at the hope that keeps the world gping on......
too tangential, somewhere in race for vocabulary the feelings are lost
Within a tear that on her lash hung gleaming. Some one hath wept 'twixt hope and fear.... //.... A Song Of Eternity with love, fear, hope and divine grace.
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9/27/2023 1:59:53 PM # 1.0.0.1115
I suppose twee nonsense is about it. The idea that a star' s mirror image would appear in a tear is a leeettle too much to believe - even if it had marked her pain!