| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | IV. A Cloud | | By Mrs. Elizabeth Jesup Eames (1813–1856) |
| | Night-Scenes
YON delicate cloud of faintest violet, | |
| Floating in peerless beauty ’long the sky, | |
| Heeds not the eternal stars around it set, | |
| But silent as a dream goes gliding by. | |
| O wand’ring cloud! fair child of dream and vision! | 5 |
| Radiant illusion, shining vapor! thou | |
| Art like our ideal pictures of Elysium,— | |
| Too bright and brief, as from thy beauteous brow | |
| The changeful glories pass! As thou to heaven, | |
| Was Hope, the angel, to my future given. | 10 |
| Her wing is folded now! not long she wore | |
| The dew of morning on her pearly plume, | |
| Cloud-like she passed away;—O, nevermore | |
| Will Hope return to gild life’s grief and gloom! | | | | |
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