The Island Bride: And Other Poems (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Hesperus.

Planet of Evening! when with banners furled,
Thy kingly comrade goeth to his rest
In the pavilions of the under-world
Beyond the golden threshold of the West;
Thou - nestling deep in Twilight's tender breast -
Seemest a soul which looks serenely down
From heights no fleshly footing ever pressed,
Upon the shadowy slopes where old Renown
And laurelled Grandeur wear their undisparaged crown.

And peacefully, on thy blue eminence,
O, virgin hostage of departed Day!
High-poised above the tumultuousness of sense,
Thou lingerest, last of all Night's fair array:
Till she, despairing of her sceptred sway -
Like the queen-jewel of her kingdom's hoard -
Dissolves thee, in her golden wine, away,
As in the cup imperial Egypt poured
When to her dusky arms she wooed her Roman lord.

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