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Denis Florence MacCarthy This eBook from the Gutenberg Project
consists of approximately 77 pages of information about Poems.
Soon the darkness will be past and gone;   Soon the silence
spread its noiseless wing; Sleep will strike its tent and hurry
on;   Life commence its weary wandering,   Ah me! its weary,
weary wandering.  Not the sighing of my lonely heart,   Not the
heavy grief-clouds hanging o’er, Not its silence can with night
depart:    Gloom hangs o’er it ever, evermore,   Ah me! darkness
ever, evermore.   Where art thou, oh! my Beautiful?  Afar   I
seek thee sadly, till the day is done,   And o’er the splendour
of the setting sun, Cold, calm, and silvery, floats the evening
star;   Where art thou?  Ah! where art thou, hid in light   That
haunts me, yet still wraps thee from my sight?  Not wholly—­ah!
not wholly—­still Love’s eyes   Trace thy dim beauty through the
mystic veil,   Like the young moon that glimmers faint and pale,
At noontid