Love, it is moonlight in they heavens now, <br />But here the sunset lingers in the west <br />Like scarlet domes of Avalon the Blest. <br />I stand beside the sea and dream thou <br />Upholdest to the moon thy whiter brow, <br />And all my soul upflames in holy quest <br />Of words to tell thy beauty, till my breast <br />Is like a shrine where choral angels bow. <br /> <br />He scattered pearls seem centered in thy face; <br />She robes thee in a pure and lustrous rain. <br />Love! I beseach the from as far a place <br />And ask thy mercy for a day unknown, <br />Abiding at the gates of Heaven in vain, <br />For oh! I enter by thy kiss alone!<br /><br />George Sterling<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/beauty-afar/
