Portraits of the Dead to Which Are Added Miscellaneous Poems
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A blanched rose-wreath braided her pale brow, That bent its starry whiteness to the earth, In emulation of its coronet ; Her yellow hair, in deep bay'd ringlets, shone Like sunny waves, or golden sunset clouds, L 146 MADALINE. And 'neath the tressy shrine of her long lash, In soft cerulean beauty calmly roU'd The soul-deluding- eye ; — the summer rose Carnation'd her white cheek, yet oft I mark'd The lip would quiver like a ruffled stream, Stirred by the breezy sigh in vain suppress'd ; And her... small billowy bosom quickly beat As a most hopeful heart. Onwards she moved. Like a star-gilded vapour ; for her form Was like the outline of young passion's dream — A floatmg harmony of shape aerial. I mark'd her progress stealing through the shades. Like daybreak o'er the horizon ; and I drew Near her unseen, and at one glance beheld Her whom I oft had heard of — Madaline ! MADALINE. 147 The beautiful heart-broken Madaline ! Whose spirit then would mingle with the winds, And in imagination climb the clouds, And sing unto the stars, and call on him, Her lost one !
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