II. Ballad
Bartholomew
Simmons
Simmons, Bartholomew
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University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
Victoria, BC, Canada
In the public domain
Included under the general title Vanities in Verse. Poem signed B. Simmons.
(AC)
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
48
302
826–827
Ay—light and careless be thy look—
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Ay—light and careless be thy look—
Let thy cold eyes on me
Ne’er gleam but like the winter’s brook
In freezing brilliancy.
Let even my passing shadow be
The eclipse of thy soul ;
Fly where thou wilt, revertedly
To me thy thoughts must roll.
Morn shall but rise from ocean dim,
To count how oft I’ve sung ;
Thy brow was like its breaking beam
The raven clouds among.
The summer Noon, with glowing tongue
Shall tell of him who vow’d
Thy form shamed hers, while round thee clung
The roses in a crowd.
And passionate Darkness too shall hint,
With its far-watching eyes,
How I have deem’d thy beauty lent
The night diviner dyes ;
Away ! in vain thy falsehood flies
Beyond the ocean’s bound ;
For twined with nature’s memories,
My spirit wraps thee round.