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 3. 23. Song (My love grew with the growing night)
2. The Celestial Passion. Part 2. 3. A Madonna of Fra Lippo Lippi
3. The Celestial Passion. Part 1. 2. The Poet and His Master
4. The New Day. Part 3. 6. “Love Me Not, Love, for That I First Loved Thee”
5. The New Day. Part 3. 7. Body and Soul

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