Charles Harpur

Here you will find the Poem Yes of poet Charles Harpur

Yes

MY SOUL is raying like a star,
My heart is happier than a bird,
And all to hear through fortune?s jar
One promissory word.

A sound as simple as the low
Quick sliding gurgle of a rill,
And yet with power to overflow
A world with blissful will!

I feel as though the very air
Was breathen from the heart of Love,
As Pleasure in the sun?s bright lair
Sat brooding like a dove!

A billow of the sunny sea,
A cloudlet of the summer sky,
How wide is their felicity?
So widely blest am I!

O Beauty, through one little word
What boundless power is thine to bless!
O Love, a seraph?s voice is heard
In thy confiding ?Yes!?