Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems by James Avis Bartley
page 51 of 224 (22%)
page 51 of 224 (22%)
![]() | ![]() |
|
|
To gaze into the fountain's glassy mirror,
Or list the sweet birds sigh on every bough, Thou art a woodnymph, speaks thy fair attire. Sweet fancy of a sweeter maidenhood, That thou dost walk at dawn a woodnymph wild. Here will I seal upon thy foam-white brow My flame again, which burns like yonder orb. Odora! speak to me! thy voice is sweet, As sounds of rescue to a ship-wrecked soul. SCENE II.--LOVER IN A GORGEOUS SALOON IN A GREAT CITY--EVENING--ENTER ODORA--LOVER SPEAKS. Again I meet my love. 'Tis wondrous bliss, That such a Moon shines on my spirit's night. Like yonder moon, at times, she disappears;-- But still the virtue of her visit stays, Till she returns, with moon-like certainty. Come, my Odora come! sing, ODORA SINGS. When winds are cold, and winter strips, The Oak and ghostly Pine; And fastens every streamlet's lips, And cold icicles shine: Still fair amid the scene so bleak, The daisy flower is seen; So truest love will comfort speak, |
|


