Share:
  Guess poet | Poets | Poets timeline | Isles | Contacts

Katharine Lee Bates - White MomentsKatharine Lee Bates - White Moments
Work rating: Low


THE best of life, what is it but white moments? Those swift illuminations when we see The flying shadows on the fragrant meadows As God beholds them from eternity. White moments, when the bliss of being worships, And fear and shame are heretics that burn In holy fire of exquisite desire For love`s surrender and for love`s return. White moments, when a Power above the artist Catches his plodding chisel, sets it free, And from each urgent stroke there springs emergent The wayward grace that laughs at industry. White moments, when the drowsing soul, sense-muffled, Is stung awake by some keen arrow-flight And rends the bestial, claiming its celestial Succession in the lineage of light. White moments, when the spirit, long confronted By all the bitter formulæ of fate, Inveterate romancer, finds its answer In some mysterious faith inviolate. White moments, when the silence steals on sorrow, And in that hush the heart becomes aware Of wings that brood it, visions that seclude it Forevermore from folly, fear and care. The best of life, what is it but white moments? Freedoms that break the chain and fling the load, Irradiations, ardors, consecrations, The starry shrines along our pilgrim road.
Source

The script ran 0.001 seconds.