Mathilde Blind

Here you will find the Poem Love's Vision of poet Mathilde Blind

Love's Vision

TRANSPORTED out of self by Youth's sweet madness, 
Emulous of love, to Love's empyrean height, 
Where I beheld you aureoled in light, 
My soul upsprang on wings of angel-gladness. 
Far, far below, the earth and all earth's badness-- 
A speck of dust--slipped darkling into night, 
As suns of fairer planets flamed in sight, 
Pure orbs or bliss unstained by gloom or sadness. 

Lo, as I soared etherially on high, 
You vanished, from my swimming eyes aloof, 
Alone, alone, within the empty sky, 
I reached out giddily, and reeling fell 
From starriest heaven, to plunge in lowest hell, 
My proud heart broken on Earth's humblest roof.