| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | II. To the Statue of Eve, by Powers | | By George Henry Calvert (1803–1889) |
| | | WHO that has had of beauteous womanhood | |
| Translucent visions, in his holiest dreams, | |
| Or when the abstracted, waking mind so teems | |
| With images of beauty that ’t will brood, | |
| In happiest silence, on the fertile mood | 5 |
| So deeply, till each outward thing but seems | |
| Fantastic, while the flashing, inward gleams | |
| Compound a loveliness that would be wooed | |
| As a reality,—were such to come | |
| Before thee, with a virgin joy, his soul, | 10 |
| Like a new spirit in Elysium, | |
| Would gush with ecstasy, while from it roll | |
| All memories of dreams or inward sight, | |
| Paled by the fulgence of thy wondrous light. | | | | |
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