Author: George Heath

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 9781230217635

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ... to A thundercloud. love and anxiety. H, black-browed, thunder-cloud, that broodest upon The world that lies beyond yon distant peak--Embodiment of vengeance, rapine, strife, Whose murky vestments skirt the solemn pines That crown the foreheads of the boundary hills; A faint streak of whose scowling front I see, Crowned with a glory indescribable!--A tumulous mass of bullion, height on height; A convex sea, with billows turbulent; A glacier amid a sunset tropical; A black and threatening providence beneath; Above--the glory of a paradise! Oh, awful thunder-cloud, whose voice I hear In half-breathed murmurs from the echoing crags; Whose lightning fury shocks the very heart Of the iron world, and sends a flashing fear, Like to the passage of a death-sprite, o'er The blanching earth, and through the shuddering air;--Oh, fearful thunder-cloud, be pitiful! There is a valley where thou broodest now, A quiet valley, garnitured with beech, And meadow flowers, and twining eglantine: --Be merciful, oh, dear, good thundercloud, And spare that valley, for my love is there. If thou hast now upraised thy murderous dart, Oh! pause a moment; pause, and glance below; There stands a cottage which thou well may'st know, Forsooth, it is the fairest in the lot; Around it creep the ivy and the vine, And o'er the porch a bush of roses leans. Peep in that cottage and behold my love. My love is beautiful, --so beautiful! In her chaste loveliness and innocence; Beyond all maids in feature and in form, With the strange halo of her tenderness Encircling her and glorifying her; With the great flood of tresses fluttering, And trembling round the lily love of face, Does not such beauty half unnerve thy arm? My love is graceful as a willow bough Charmed by yEolian winds.