Oft as by chance, a little while apart
The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn,
Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart,
Beams like the jewel on the breast of dawn:
Not though high heaven should rend would deeper awe
Fill me than penetrates my spirit thus,
Nor all those signs the Patmian prophet saw
Seem a new heaven and earth so marvelous;
But, clad thenceforth in iridescent dyes,
The fair world glistens, and in after days
The memory of kind lips and laughing eyes
Lives in my step and lightens all my face, --
So they who found the Earthly Paradise
Still breathed, returned, of that sweet, joyful place.
Sonnet Viii
Alan Seeger
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Poem topics: beauty, heart, memory, world, earth, place, chance, face, spirit, prophet, paradise, jewel, high, step, joyful, marvelous, dawn, heaven, sweet, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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