Poem by Richard Watson Gilder

The New Day. Part 3. 27. “The Smile of Her I Love Is Like the Dawn”

The smile of her I love is like the dawn
Whose touch makes Memnon sing.
O, see where wide the golden sunlight flows—
The barren desert blossoms as the rose!

The smile of her I love—when that is gone,
O'er all the world Night spreads her shadowy wing.

1. The New Day. Part 4. 2. The Mirror
2. The New Day. Part 3. 5. “I Will Be Brave for Thee”
3. The New Day. Part 4. 16. “Love Is Not Bond to Any Man”
4. The New Day. Part 2. 1. Words without Song
5. The Celestial Passion. Part 2. 3. A Madonna of Fra Lippo Lippi

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