<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=506753" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Urania's Lover.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O poet, thou art called to tread her ways,<br>Hers, mistress of the soul, Urania fair.<br>(Ah God! how fair, how all adorable,<br>But those who have wooed her can tell!)<br>All of thy nights and days,<br>All of thy light and air,<br>Hers only, so thy soul shall haply win<br>Grace in those eyes<br>That goddess-wise<br>Smile in that heaven man's highest have enter'd in.<br>Thou'rt called to Love's high hest, soul-wooer thou<br>Of the divinest beauty man may know —<br>Soul-wooer and soul-winner, so thy feet<br>Fail not nor falter, so earth's cheat<br>Clip not thy burning brow<br>With its chill wreath, and so<br>Darken the heavenly light within the brain;<br>But let thy forehead be<br>Starred with pure poesy,<br>So thou to her high mystery attain.<br>Thy love a Goddess and her heaven thy home!<br>By the ethereal beauty in those eyes,<br>O poet! bless the loss of all things here<br>So but thy soul in that fine sphere,<br>Beloved of her, may roam<br>No more with wandering cries —<br>At last may bow before her face, and be,<br>Though woman-born, divine,<br>When all of hers is thine,<br>And thou a star of God's ascendency.<br>Ah! through that heaven shall not the wonder trail<br>Of thy first worship, like a comet's hair<br>Leagues on leagues floating from the flying star?<br>Shall not thy first faint steps afar<br>Move like a being pale<br>Amid the glory there<br>Up to the voiceless beauty of her brow,<br>As thou dost see, as 'twere,<br>Thy whole life with her there —<br>See from that height the depth where thou art now?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Crawford">Robert Crawford</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=506753" data-title="Urania's Lover. de Robert Crawford" data-description="O poet, thou art called to tread her ways, Hers, mistress of the soul, Urania fair. (Ah God! how fair, how all adorable, But those who have wooed her can tell!) All of thy nights and days, All of thy light and air, Hers only, so thy soul shall hap..."></div> </div> </div>

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