Each limb and each feature has action in tune with the
meaning that smiles as it speaks
From the fervour of eyes and the fluttering of hands in a
foretaste of fancies and freaks,
When the thought of them deepens the dimples that
laugh in the corners and curves of his cheeks.
meaning that smiles as it speaks
From the fervour of eyes and the fluttering of hands in a
foretaste of fancies and freaks,
When the thought of them deepens the dimples that
laugh in the corners and curves of his cheeks.
As a bird when the music within her is yet too intense to
be spoken in song,
That pauses a little for pleasure to feel how the notes
from withinwards throng,
So pauses the laugh at his lips for a little, and waxes
within more strong.
be spoken in song,
That pauses a little for pleasure to feel how the notes
from withinwards throng,
So pauses the laugh at his lips for a little, and waxes
within more strong.
As the music elate and triumphal that bids all things of
the dawn bear part
With the tune that prevails when her passion has risen
into rapture of passionate art,
So lightens the laughter made perfect that leaps from its
nest in the heaven of his heart.
the dawn bear part
With the tune that prevails when her passion has risen
into rapture of passionate art,
So lightens the laughter made perfect that leaps from its
nest in the heaven of his heart.
Deep, grave and sedate is the gaze of expectant intensity
bent for awhile
And absorbed on its aim as the tale that enthralls him
uncovers the weft of its wile,
Till the goal of attention is touched, and expectancy
kisses delight in a smile.
bent for awhile
And absorbed on its aim as the tale that enthralls him
uncovers the weft of its wile,
Till the goal of attention is touched, and expectancy
kisses delight in a smile.
And it seems to us here that in Paradise hardly the spirit
of Lamb or of Blake
May hear or behold aught sweeter than lightens and rings
when his bright thoughts break
In laughter that well might lure them to look, and to
smile as of old for his sake.
of Lamb or of Blake
May hear or behold aught sweeter than lightens and rings
when his bright thoughts break
In laughter that well might lure them to look, and to
smile as of old for his sake.
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