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Poem by Charles Sangster


Sonnet


I sat within the temple of her heart,
And watched the living Soul as it passed through,
Arrayed in pearly vestments, white and pure.
The calm, immortal presence made me start.
It searched through all the chambers of her mind
With one mild glance of love, and smiled to view
The fastnesses of feeling, strong, secure,
And safe from all surprise. It sits enshrined

And offers incense in her heart, as on
An altar sacred unto God. The dawn
Of an imperishable love passed through
The lattice of my senses, and I, too,
Did offer incense in that solemn place–
A woman's heart made pure and sanctified by grace.



Charles Sangster


Charles Sangster's other poems:
  1. The Wine of Song
  2. The Rapid
  3. Lyric to the Isles
  4. The Soldiers of the Plough
  5. The Plains of Abraham


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Hartley Coleridge Sonnet ("If I have sinned in act, I may repent")
  • Percy Shelley Sonnet ("Ye hasten to the grave! What seek ye there") 1820
  • Nicholas Breton Sonnet ("The worldly prince doth in his sceptre hold")
  • Amy Levy Sonnet ("Most wonderful and strange it seems, that I")
  • Rupert Brooke Sonnet ("Not with vain tears, when we're beyond the sun")
  • Alice Dunbar-Nelson Sonnet ("I had not thought of violets late")
  • Wallace Stevens Sonnet ("Lo, even as I passed beside the booth")
  • James Lowell Sonnet ("If some small savor creep into my rhyme")
  • Charles Kingsley Sonnet ("The baby sings not on its mother's breast") Bertrich, 1851

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