SHUT out day's wintry beams! <br />Sleep, brood upon my brain! <br />For sweet sleep bringeth dreams <br />And love again! <br />Love cold and wan and sere <br />Heaped over with tears and snows; <br />Lo, born within its bier, <br />Blooms like a rose! <br /> <br />Its fragrance fills each vein, <br />Its fervour flushes my heart, <br />I feel through breast and brain <br />Its rapturous smart; <br />The look, the tone, the deep <br />Supreme smile of delight: <br />Ah, fickle as love, false sleep, <br />Why take thy flight?<br /><br />Mathilde Blind<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-s-phantom-2/
