Additional Poetry of Felicia Hemans in the 1840 edition of Songs of the Affections/Exclamations of Iphigenia on Seeing her Brother
For other versions of this work, see Exclamations of Iphigenia on Seeing her Brother.
Songs of the Affections, 1840, Page 300
II.
EXCLAMATIONS OF IPHIGENIA ON SEEING HER BROTHER.
Oh hear me, look upon me! how my heart,
After long desolation, now unfolds
Unto this new delight, to kiss thy head,
Thou dearest, dearest one of all on earth!
To clasp thee with my arms, which were but thrown
On the void winds before! Oh give me way,
Give my soul's rapture way! The eternal fount
Leaps not more brightly forth from cliff to cliff
Of high Parnassus, down the golden vale,
Than the strong joy bursts gushing from my heart,
And swells around me to a flood of bliss—
Orestes!—oh, my brother!