Felicia Hemans in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Volume 35 1834/On a Remembered Picture of Christ
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 35, Page 632
II.
ON A REMEMBERED PICTURE OF CHRIST, AN ECCE HOMO BY LEONARDO DA VINCI.
I met that image on a mirthful day
Of youth; and sinking with a still'd surprise,
The pride of life, before those holy eyes,
In my quick heart died thoughtfully away,
Abash'd to mute confession of a sway
Awful, though meek:—and now, that from the strings
Of my soul's lyre, the Tempest's mighty wings
Have struck forth tones which there unwaken'd lay;
Now, that around the deep life of my mind,
Affections, deathless as itself, have twined,
Oft doth the pale bright vision still float by;
But more divinely sweet, and speaking now,
Of one whose pity, throned on that sad brow,
Sounded all depths of Love, Grief, Death–Humanity!