Eros Author:Robert Seymour Bridges Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MEASURE III. 1. FTER longs -- leep when Psyche first awoke, A smile delayed the opening of her eyes, Fed from the comfort of her spirit, that spoke ... more »Delighted invitation to arise. But soon the encompafsment of sights so strange Rebuffed her mood, nor could she piece the change, But lay awhile embarrafsed with surprise. Anon her quickening thought took up its task, And all came back as it had happed o'ernight; The sad procefsion of the wedding mask, The melancholy toiling up the height, The solitary rocks where she was left; And thence in dark and airy waftage reft, How on the flowers she had been disburdened light. Thereafter she would rise and see what place That voyage had its haven in, and found She stood upon a little hill, whose base Shelved off into the valley all around; And all round that the steep cliffs rose away, Save on one side where to the break of day The widening dale withdrew in falling ground. There, out from over sea, and scarce so high As she, the sun above his watery blaze Upbroke the grey dome of the morning sky, And struck the island with his level rays ; Sifting his gold thro' lazy mists, that still Climbed on the shadowy roots of ev%ry hill, And in the tree-tops breathed their silvery haze. At hand on either side there was a wood; And on the upward lawn, that sloped between, Not many paces back a temple stood, By even steps ascending from the green ; ' With shafts and pediments of marble made, It filled the pafsage of the rising glade, And there withstayed the sun in dazzling sheen. Too fair for human art, so Psyche thought, It might the fancy of some god rejoice ; Like to those halls which lame Hephasstos wrought, Original,...« less