"I Was Again Beside My Love in Dream" Poem

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"I Was Again Beside My Love in Dream"

 

I WAS again beside my Love in dream:

Earth was so beautiful, the moon was shining;

The muffled voice of many a cataract stream

Came like a love-song, as, with arms entwining,

Our hearts were mixed in unison supreme.

 

The wind lay spell-bound in each pillared pine,

The tasselled larches had no sound or motion,

As my whole life was sinking into thine--

Sinking into a deep, unfathomed ocean

Of infinite love--uncircumscribed, divine.

 

Night held her breath, it seemed, with all her stars:

Eternal eyes that watched in mute compassion

Our little lives o'erleap their mortal bars,

Fused in the fulness of immortal passion,

A passion as immortal as the stars.

 

There was no longer any thee or me;

No sense of self, no wish or incompleteness;

The moment, rounded to Eternity,

Annihilated time's destructive fleetness:

For all but love itself had ceased to be.

 

Mathilde Blind (1841-1896)

 

http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/blind/ascent.html

 

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This is a beautiful piece of writing and well crafted. That last

stanza is particularly beautiful, i.e., "There was no longer any thee

or me... for all but love itself had ceased to be." Hope you enjoy

it. I think Mathilde would be honored to be part of the Shakti

Sadhana newsgroup.

 

Eric

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Thank you Eric for the beautiful Poem. we are honored to have Mathilde in Shakti

Sadhana.

 

 

 

 

 

 

".. you may shoot me with your words... you may cut me with your eyes ... you

may kill me with your hatefulness, but still like air, I will rise ..."

 

Maya Angelou

 

" Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and

leave foot prints on our heart and we are never ever the same again "

 

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